sad - Story 120798 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news had hit him like a physical blow. He'd been so proud of his new home, the perfect place to raise his kids. Now, the knowledge of the past cast a shadow over everything. He found himself watching his children, their laughter echoing eerily in the halls. He felt the weight of responsibility crashing down on him.

He sat on the stairs, a heavy feeling in his chest, his head in his hands. He'd thought he was making a fresh start. A fresh start. The phrase tasted like metal.

He hated it.

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