sad - Story 120887 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the farmer’s market felt dull to Leo. He walked past stalls overflowing with fresh produce, his own shopping basket almost empty. The sight of Mr. Sterling, his neighbor, haggling effortlessly over the price of organic vegetables stung. Leo couldn't even afford the discounted, slightly bruised fruit.

He shuffled through the crowd, feeling like a shadow. He thought about the looming deadlines at work, the mounting debt. He felt a strange hollowness, a sensation like a vital part of him had gone missing. The warmth of the sun felt distant.

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