sad - Story 120769 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unbelievable," she whispered, her voice barely audible. She walked forward slowly, each step heavy. The vibrant redbud, her namesake, was gone. It felt like someone had stolen a piece of her soul.

Her eyes blurred with moisture. She remembered the joy of planting it, the vibrant pink blossoms, her mother’s smile. Everything felt pointless.

She reached out and traced the outline of where the tree had been, her fingers phantom-touching the absent trunk. The world was now gray, desolate, and bleak. She felt a deep, unshakeable sorrow.

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