sad - Story 120745 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, it's just a tree," her husband said, patting her shoulder. His words were supposed to be comforting, but they fell flat. She didn't have the energy to correct him.

She found herself back inside, avoiding the chaotic scene outside. The house felt empty, too large. It was as if the tree had taken a piece of her with it. She sat on the couch, staring at the blank television screen.

The silence was deafening. She couldn't shake the feeling of something irreplaceable lost. She wanted to scream.

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