sad - Story 120875 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The artist's breath hitched as she saw her paintings hanging in the coffee shop, without her consent. It felt like a punch to the gut. The casual display of her art felt deeply personal, and a betrayal of the intimate connection she had with each brushstroke. Her art was a personal diary, and now it was open to the world.

She watched a young woman, sipping her coffee, glance at one of her paintings and yawn, then promptly look away. The artist felt a knot tighten in her stomach. She felt a profound loneliness.

She walked out of the coffee shop, the bell above the door chiming loudly, and wished she could simply dissolve into the crowd.

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