sad - Story 120743 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wind had been picking up all morning, a mournful howl that seemed to presage the inevitable. Now, the aftermath confirmed it. She sat at her kitchen table, tracing the rim of her coffee cup with a trembling finger.

The tree. They'd loved that tree. They had sat in its shade countless times. All the years of having it there. All the years of her.

She barely registered the sounds of chainsaws and hammering. All she could hear was the relentless rhythm of her own labored breathing. A small, dry sob escaped her lips.

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