sad - Story 120817 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chipped mug of coffee sat cold on her desk, reflecting the chill that had settled in Amelia’s heart. The novel she'd spent a year writing had been rejected, the words now feeling like accusations. She felt like a failure, a fraud. The world around her was too loud.

A knock at her office door. It was Kevin, the boy who always stole her cookies and told his friends that she was weird. Now he stood there, dressed in a smart blazer, looking surprisingly approachable.

"Amelia? Do you have a moment?" he inquired gently. "I'm a therapist now, and I saw you on my intake list. You looked a bit… disheartened." Her chest ached. She wanted to scream. But instead, she just nodded.

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