sad - Story 120825 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“I don’t understand,” Maya muttered, her voice barely a whisper. She stared at the screen, at the identical code, at the same groundbreaking algorithm. Her fingers trembled as she clicked through the lines, the evidence piling up.

She had envisioned this project as a legacy, a testament to her abilities. Now it felt like a cruel joke.

The silence of her apartment amplified the echo of her inner turmoil. She felt the tears welling up in her eyes, blurring the code and the future she once so brightly imagined. The air felt heavy, suffocating.

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