sad - Story 120750 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unbelievable," she muttered, watching the spectacle from her window. A single tear traced a path down her cheek, despite her best efforts to blink it away. The sight of the fallen tree, a mangled heap of broken branches and torn roots, was a stark reminder of all she had recently lost.

She hadn't been to see her own mother in weeks. She knew she should go, but couldn't seem to muster the will. It was easier to stay inside, avoiding any reminders of the world outside. It seemed to have come crashing down.

She went to make a cup of tea, the clinking of the kettle echoing in the suddenly too-quiet house.

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