sad - Story 120863 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rain hammered against the windows of Ms. Rodriguez's apartment, mirroring the relentless drumming in her head. The news was on, detailing all the ways the world was going wrong, but she couldn't bring herself to switch it off. Each story was another nail in the coffin.

Her phone buzzed. A text. A photo of a vibrant painting. It was a still life, full of color and light. Below the image, a message read, "Remember how you always told us to look for the beauty? This one's for you. Love, Emily." Emily had been a student who had a hard time in school.

Ms. Rodriguez took a deep, shuddering breath. She felt the knot in her stomach loosen slightly. She would try to be better.

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