sad - Story 120713 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The envelope landed on the doormat with a soft thud, a sound that was somehow amplified in the silent hallway. Amelia barely glanced at it, knowing instinctively what it held. She sat on the floor, her back against the door, the cold seeping through her thin sweater. The scent of her neighbor's cooking, normally inviting, now felt like a cruel joke.

She wrapped her arms around her knees, hugging herself as tightly as she could. The world tilted slightly, the edges blurring at the periphery of her vision. Her breath hitched, each inhale a struggle. Her eyes fixated on a crack in the wall, the intricate pattern of the damage suddenly the most fascinating thing in existence.

"I can't," she choked out, her voice barely a whisper. "I simply can't."

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