sad - Story 120795 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the house was deafening. The vibrant colours of the newly painted walls seemed to mock her, cheerful and bright against the oppressive weight within her. She'd been so excited to redecorate, to start a new chapter. Now, all she felt was a profound sense of loss, a disconnection from everything.

She wandered through the rooms, touching the surfaces, the smooth, cool textures beneath her fingertips. A shudder ran through her, a wave of revulsion. She grabbed her keys and walked out.

She had to get out.

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