sad - Story 120824 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar scent of old books and parchment in the library offered no solace. James sat hunched over the table, his fingers drumming a restless rhythm against the worn wood. He hadn't slept properly in days. He reread the email, the words blurring before his eyes.

He’d poured his heart and soul into the research, spending countless nights chasing the perfect argument. His discovery…someone had already found it. He’d been beaten to it.

He pushed away from the table, a sudden wave of dizziness washing over him. The world seemed to tilt. The weight of his disappointment pressed down on him, stealing his breath.

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