sad - Story 120689 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The telescope, once his gateway to the cosmos, sat gathering dust in the corner of the attic. The vastness of space, the wonder of the stars, used to excite him. Now, the thought of looking through the lens was… exhausting. His daughter, Olivia, had inherited his fascination.

He heard the excited chatter of Olivia as she ran up the stairs. "Daddy! Let's look at the moon tonight! Please?" Her eyes shone with a child's pure, unadulterated awe. He felt his shoulders slump, the weight of his feelings pressing down on him.

He waved a hand dismissively. "Maybe another night, Liv," he said, his voice flat. He used to find solace in the infinite expanse of the night sky. Now, the darkness seemed to reflect his own inner emptiness.

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