sad - Story 120704 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sterile air of the office seemed to suffocate Amelia. She found herself staring at the clock, the seconds crawling by with agonizing slowness. She felt a profound weariness, a bone-deep exhaustion that no amount of sleep could cure.

Lunch had been a disaster. She'd picked at her food, unable to find an appetite. The taste of the food felt wrong, like something was off.

“Did you ever go to summer camp, David?” asked Mark, interrupting her despondent contemplation. The air around him seemed charged with cheer.

Amelia’s head snapped up.

“Camp Firefly,” David replied. Amelia felt her mouth go dry, her pulse quickening slightly. A wave of a strange, unfamiliar emotion flooded her.

“Camp Firefly? I went there,” she blurted out, before catching herself. She regretted those words.

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