sad - Story 120819 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The empty apartment echoed with the silence of solitude. The divorce had been finalized, leaving Alex with a hollow ache. Everything felt diminished, colorless. He felt a constant, dull throb of loss.

He was sitting in the waiting room when he looked up. It was Brian, the guy who had once spread lies about him and made him feel worthless. Brian was wearing a friendly smile.

"Alex? Hey, it’s good to see you, even under these circumstances," Brian said. "I'm a therapist now. What brings you in?" Alex's jaw tightened. He wanted to shout, to punch. But the bleakness within him restrained him.

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