sad - Story 120869 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mr. Olsen sat in the near-empty auditorium, staring at the stage. The school play was canceled due to lack of funding. All the effort, the rehearsals, the dreams of his students, had vanished. He sank deeper into his seat.

A large box was delivered to his house. It contained a full set of costumes, props, and a handwritten script. The note read, “This is for you and your students. Don’t give up.” It was from an anonymous donor. It was signed with a simple smiley face.

He reread the note. He stood up. He felt a spark.

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