sad - Story 120870 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the unopened bills on Ms. Hernandez’s desk was crushing. The cost of living had gone up, and the salary wasn't keeping pace. She felt a profound sense of helplessness. Her efforts seemed insignificant.

The next day, she found a handmade gift at her door. It was a brightly colored quilt. A note was attached: "To the best teacher, from all of us." The quilt had been made by her class.

She touched the soft fabric. A warmth spread through her, chasing away the cold that had settled within. She was not alone.

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