sad - Story 120860 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old photographs, scattered across the table, seemed to mock her. Olivia stared at the bucket list, a collection of wishes that now felt like a taunt. "Learn to sail." The words swam before her eyes.

She stood abruptly, then just as quickly sat back down. The world felt out of focus, as if viewed through a distorted lens.

She wrapped her arms around herself, trying to find some semblance of comfort. The space felt large, empty.

"Volunteer at an animal shelter." She didn't have the strength. She felt incapable of any action. The world was a vast, bleak expanse.

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