sad - Story 120787 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The photographs were pristine, clinical. He felt a visceral dislike for the manicured lawns and the perfectly aligned hedges. The house looked…cold. He ran a hand through his hair, the action slow, deliberate.

He remembered the untamed chaos of his childhood, the games in the yard, the scraped knees, the family gatherings. The listing didn't mention any of those things. The listing was just about square footage and updated appliances.

A tear welled up, blurring the images on the screen. He wiped it away impatiently. He closed his eyes, the emptiness within him growing, a gaping chasm.

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