sad - Story 120748 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang. It was the neighbor. He was asking for help. She almost didn’t answer it. The world had turned gray.

She pulled herself up and went over. She wanted to yell. She wanted to stay inside and hide. She wanted to go back to the way things were.

She helped for an hour or so, and then excused herself. She knew that, at the very least, she was a liability to her neighbors at this point.

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