sad - Story 120837 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She meticulously folded the bills, each crisp edge a testament to her husband’s quiet prudence. He was a man of routines. He always paid the bills. He always left the house at the same time. He always acted so… reliable. And this, this secret stash of cash stashed in the back of the linen closet, felt wrong. It made her stomach churn.

Her hands shook as she counted the bills again. The total was staggering. She sat on the floor, the neat stacks of money spread out before her like a silent indictment. The air in the room felt thick, heavy with unspoken questions.

She didn't feel angry. Just... weary. She didn’t know how to move forward, how to breathe again.

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