sad - Story 120799 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house seemed to listen. Every creak of the floorboards, every rustle of leaves against the window, felt magnified, imbued with a terrible significance. She’d tried to ignore it, to convince herself it was all in her head, but the truth lay there. The truth of the house.

She retreated to the sunroom, the large windows offering a view of the garden. The sunshine was warm, inviting. It was all a lie. She stared out at the trees, the wind stirring the branches, a silent, relentless swaying.

She felt a hollowness, a deep ache.

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