sad - Story 120786 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Imagine your dream home," the realtor's words taunted her from the screen. She felt a prickle of annoyance, a rising tide of irritation that she quickly suppressed. It was a beautiful home, there was no denying that, but it wasn't *her* home anymore.

She'd spent weeks avoiding the listing, knowing it would stir up emotions she wasn't ready to confront. She’d finally given in today. The house, her house, had once been filled with warmth and chaos.

She leaned back in her chair, a sense of fragility suddenly overtaking her. Her lips trembled slightly, a subtle giveaway of the turmoil within. She felt a deep connection to that place she could no longer visit.

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