sad - Story 120738 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar scent of popcorn, usually a source of comfort, suddenly felt cloying. Michael sat in the dimly lit movie theater, staring at the bright screen, but unable to focus. Next to him, Jake was excitedly discussing the upcoming film, his voice filled with laughter. The news of Jake’s move was still sinking in.

He took a bite of popcorn, the salty taste doing nothing to alleviate the hollowness in his chest. His breathing felt shallow, his heart pounding a frantic rhythm against his ribs. The silence between the explosions on the screen, usually a respite, now amplified the aching space in his mind.

The theater, usually a place of shared escape, now felt like a cruel reminder of their impending separation. The thought of Jake in another city, experiencing new adventures without him, produced a deep, almost physical discomfort.

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