sad - Story 120815 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering neon sign of the diner cast an unnatural glow on David's face as he stared at his untouched burger. His promotion had been rescinded. He was drowning in self-doubt. The grease on the plate was the only thing mirroring his internal state.

He heard a cough behind him. Turning, he found himself facing Emily, who used to delight in making his life a misery. She had a kind face, a concerned expression.

"David? Is everything alright? It seems like you've got a lot on your mind," Emily said. "I'm Emily Carter, and I'm a therapist. I’m new to the area. Maybe I could help?" David wanted to bolt. But his legs wouldn't obey. His whole body felt the heavy drag of despair.

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