sad - Story 120823 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to have lost its color. Eleanor pushed her plate of untouched pasta away, the vibrant sauce appearing dull and unappetizing. The fluorescent lights of the office hummed, adding to the general sense of disquiet. She felt a profound ache in her chest, a tightening that made it difficult to draw a deep breath.

The presentation was scheduled for tomorrow. But, the news...it had utterly flattened her spirit. The competition had been fierce, but she had been confident, sure of her advantage. This new challenge… it had left her drained.

Now, her future, that shimmering vision she'd been meticulously constructing, felt like it was dissolving before her very eyes.

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