sad - Story 120822 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found himself staring out the rain-streaked window of the coffee shop, the warmth of the latte doing nothing to thaw the chill creeping into his bones. His shoulders were slumped, his posture reflecting the weight of his predicament. The barista called his name, but he didn't even flinch.

It had taken him months, countless hours fueled by caffeine and an unwavering hope. Then, to discover another, doing precisely what he had been doing, was a blow, a twist of the knife.

He knew he should be more enthusiastic, more positive, but the project had been his life, his passion for so long, and now... now he just felt empty.

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