sad - Story 120720 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The harsh fluorescent light of the kitchen seemed to amplify every crack in the cheap linoleum floor. Chloe slowly reread the words, the harshness of the message digging into her soul. Her fingers trembled as she set the notice down, a wave of sickness washing over her. The once-familiar scent of her favorite coffee now made her feel queasy.

She clutched her stomach, fighting back the rising tide of emotions. She looked at her reflection in the window, her features pale and drawn. She felt a profound sense of isolation. She felt herself start to shake uncontrollably.

"It can't be," she whimpered, her voice breaking.

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