sad - Story 120878 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the museum felt thick and heavy to Thomas. His intricately woven tapestries, once hidden in his grandmother's attic, were now the centerpiece of a prestigious exhibit, stolen and recontextualized without his involvement. He felt an intense sting.

A guide, with a practiced smile, pointed out the "unique techniques" employed in the pieces, completely missing the emotional undercurrent, the personal history woven into each thread. Thomas felt a burning sensation in his throat, a desire to explain, to correct, to reclaim.

He leaned against a cold marble pillar, a wave of nausea washing over him. The grand space, usually a place of inspiration, now felt alien and suffocating.

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