sad - Story 120893 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I just... I don't understand," Maya whispered, her voice barely audible. Tears welled in her eyes, blurring the harsh print of the graded essay. She'd poured her heart into the research, spending late nights in the lab, fuelled by coffee and the burning desire to succeed. Now, a "D" stared back at her, a stark judgment. She crumpled the paper, the sound a tiny, pathetic explosion in the otherwise silent dorm room. She hugged herself tightly, as if warding off a chill. A lump formed in her throat, making it difficult to breathe.

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