sad - Story 120707 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant ringing of the phone amplified the tension inside Daniel. He rubbed his temples, a dull ache throbbing behind his eyes. He’d retreated to his corner of the office, seeking refuge from the relentless pace of the day.

He’d forgotten to eat breakfast. He wasn’t hungry, but it was just a sign of the way he was.

"Hey, isn’t it crazy how much Camp Sunshine has changed?" asked Chloe, her voice full of laughter. She stood in front of him, radiating an optimism that Daniel found both comforting and irritating.

Daniel froze, a sudden stillness overtaking him.

"Camp Sunshine?" he repeated, his voice barely above a whisper.

He felt a sudden, unexpected heat in his cheeks.

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