sad - Story 120816 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cramped, dimly lit room pressed in on Fiona. The job interview had been a disaster. The questions, the criticisms, the rejection. She felt trapped, suffocated by her own inadequacies. She wanted to disappear, to melt into the shadows.

A voice interrupted her internal misery. "Fiona? What are you doing here?" It was Greg, who'd relentlessly teased her about her weight. He stood in the lobby, a gentle smile on his face.

"I'm a therapist," he explained. "Actually, I'm waiting for a client. You appear… distressed. Is there anything I can help you with?" She stared at him, unable to process the situation. Her skin felt too tight.

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