sad - Story 120760 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter landed on her desk alongside a pile of bills and unopened junk mail. She glanced at the name on the envelope, then tossed it aside, a dismissive gesture. It seemed like just another thing to deal with. Her gaze drifted to the framed photo on her desk, a picture of her and her sister. She fiddled with the frame, her fingers tracing the edge of the glass, her eyes filled with a wistful longing. She felt a profound emptiness, a void that yawned within her, wider than any written apology could ever fill.

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