sad - Story 120820 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the world seemed to press down on Olivia as she stared out the window at the relentless rain. Her business had failed. The future felt bleak, the past tainted with regret. She felt as if she were a ship sinking in a stormy sea.

She was surprised when she noticed Liam, who'd always made her feel small, standing nearby. He smiled. "Olivia? What are you doing here?"

"I'm a therapist," he clarified, "and I happened to notice you in the waiting area. You seem… overwhelmed." She wanted to run, to hide. The room seemed to tilt slightly. The world felt dangerous.

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