sad - Story 120803 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"She's… alive?" Eleanor echoed, the word catching in her throat. The lawyer, a starchy woman with a perpetually pursed mouth, offered a curt nod. The paperwork lay spread before her, a stark declaration of a reality she hadn't anticipated. A sister. A complete stranger.

Eleanor's fingers trembled as she reached for a glass of water, the icy liquid doing little to soothe the tightness in her throat. She closed her eyes, trying to visualize a world that now included this unknown person. It was a difficult feat. Her carefully constructed life suddenly felt fragile, like a house of cards threatened by a sudden gust of wind.

She excused herself from the lawyer's office, the crisp autumn air offering little relief as she walked through the bustling city. The weight of the world seemed to settle on her shoulders. All of a sudden she couldn't stand being around other people, she wanted to get away and be alone.

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