sad - Story 120880 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The discovery was a sucker punch. His intricate illustrations, created for his own amusement and now plastered on a series of mass-produced posters, felt like a violation. A deep, gnawing hollowness settled in his stomach. He felt utterly depleted.

He walked aimlessly through the city, seeing his artwork staring back at him from every street corner, every store front. He wanted to scream. He wanted to smash something.

The vibrant colors, the bold designs, once a source of joy, now mocked him. He clutched his hands, nails digging into his palms, and the feeling, the emotion was a raw open wound.

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