sad - Story 120718 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The eviction notice was clutched tightly in her hand, the paper crumpled from her grip. Olivia sat on the floor, leaning against the cold brick wall of her building. The rhythmic thrum of the city felt distant and muted. The vibrant colors of the street art she loved now felt distorted.

She closed her eyes, trying to block out the world. The sounds of children playing and the smell of cooking food coming from the nearby apartments now felt like a taunt. Her breath caught in her throat, a physical manifestation of her distress. Her chest tightened.

“No, no, no,” she whispered, her voice barely audible.

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