sad - Story 120710 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The relentless chatter of the office was a constant assault on Grace’s senses. She felt overwhelmed, the weight of the day pressing down on her. She felt, for some reason, very tired.

Her usual enthusiasm for her work had vanished, replaced by a pervasive sense of weariness. She’d spent the morning avoiding any interaction.

"Hey, do you remember that water balloon fight at Camp Whispering Pines?" asked Oliver, with a grin, interrupting Grace's internal struggle. "That was something."

Grace went very still, her breath catching in her throat.

“Whispering Pines?” she said, her voice unusually weak.

The corners of her eyes felt suddenly damp.

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