sad - Story 120751 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chipped mug warmed Amelia's hands, but the heat didn't seem to penetrate the chill that had settled deep within her. Rain lashed against the window, mirroring the torrent of memories that had just flooded her. A crisp, white envelope lay on the table, a stark contrast to the muted tones of her living room. Inside, a handwritten apology from Sarah, a friend who'd vanished after a bitter argument a decade ago. Amelia picked at a loose thread on the sofa, her gaze distant, the steam from her tea swirling unnoticed. The weight of the years, the unspoken words, suddenly felt heavier than ever.

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