sad - Story 120865 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The classroom was eerily silent. Ms. Chen stood amongst the empty desks, the ghosts of past lessons swirling around her. It was the end of the semester and the students she had grown to care for were moving on. She hadn't been able to make any connections with anyone. The weight of it pressed down on her chest.

A small package waited on her desk. Inside was a hand-drawn card and a small potted sunflower, its face tilted towards the window. "Thank you for teaching us, even when it was hard. You made us feel safe." The card was from a student named David, who had always seemed distant and withdrawn.

Ms. Chen carefully placed the sunflower in the sun. A single tear traced a path down her cheek, but she felt a small flicker of warmth.

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