sad - Story 120814 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Clara wandered aimlessly through the art museum, the vibrant colors of the paintings doing nothing to lift the weight on her shoulders. Her relationship had crumbled. She felt like a shattered vase, the pieces impossible to put back together. The museum felt vast and hollow.

A voice, surprisingly gentle, broke her reverie. "Clara? It's been a while, hasn't it?" It was Ben, who used to make fun of her lisp. Now he looked different, his face softened, his eyes filled with a quiet intensity. He held out a hand.

"I'm a therapist," he said simply. "I saw you wandering around. Everything okay?" Her throat tightened. She looked at his hand then away. The familiar surge of fear mixed with an unexpected flicker of hope.

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