sad - Story 120719 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold, impersonal words of the eviction notice echoed in the vast, echoing space of his apartment. Robert felt a wave of coldness wash over him. The familiar scent of his pipe tobacco now seemed bitter and acrid. He slumped in his favorite armchair, the springs groaning beneath his weight.

He stared at the blank television screen, the silent void mirroring the emptiness he felt. He reached for a glass of whiskey, the amber liquid offering no comfort. His gaze drifted towards the bookshelf, the titles blurring before his vision. He took a long, slow swallow.

“Damn it all,” he muttered, his voice gravelly.

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