sad - Story 120688 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old, battered guitar case lay open on the floor. He hadn't touched the instrument in months. The feel of the worn wood, the creation of music, used to transport him. His son, Alex, had taken up the hobby, his passion a stark contrast to his father’s apathy.

He heard the strum of a guitar coming from the living room. Alex was practicing, his voice a tentative echo of the music he was learning. He felt a lump rise in his throat, and the familiar sting behind his eyes.

He didn't move. He closed his eyes and listened to the music, remembering a time when joy was so accessible. Now, his hands felt leaden, the strings of his own guitar a burden.

Emotion: sad

Cluster: Sadness / Despair

PC1 (Valence): -2.52 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -1.50

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion sad. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 sad stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the sad emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the sad vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`😞`	0.436
`😔`	0.405
`S`	0.384
`无法`	0.341
`L`	0.337

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.749
`la`	-0.614
`l`	-0.471
`/`	-0.350
`!`	-0.322