sad - Story 120797 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant, floral wallpaper in the dining room seemed to choke her. She stood, staring at it for a long, long time. The thought that someone, within these walls, had met a violent end, was all-consuming. She'd always loved the dining room, but now the place felt off.

She reached out and touched the wall, the paper feeling rough against her fingers. A chill ran through her, and she snatched her hand away as if burned. She left the room, the floral print and the tragedy behind.

"I need to go," she whispered.

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