sad - Story 120796 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d always considered himself a practical man, a pragmatist. But the details of the crime…they burrowed under his skin, refusing to be dislodged. He’d tried to rationalize it, to dismiss it as a historical footnote, but the house itself seemed to resist, to hold onto the echoes of the past.

He sat in the garden, the roses he’d meticulously pruned now seeming to wilt before his eyes. The sun dipped below the horizon, casting long, eerie shadows. He felt a hollowness, a void that yawned within him.

He couldn't find his joy anymore.

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