sad - Story 120886 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Another successful investment,” Mr. Harrison had announced at the community barbecue, his voice booming with confidence. Sarah had watched, a plate of lukewarm potato salad clutched in her hand, as he boasted about his latest venture. Her own savings account, however, remained stubbornly stagnant.

She excused herself from the gathering, the cheerful chatter grating on her nerves. She walked to the edge of the park, and looked at the manicured lawns. A feeling of isolation washed over her, and she felt the knot in her stomach tighten. The world seemed to be moving at a pace she couldn't keep up with.

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