sad - Story 120895 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to have lost its color. Sarah had received a "D" on her art project. The brightly-lit studio, usually a source of joy and creative energy, now felt oppressive and stifling. She sat on the floor, surrounded by her paint supplies, which now appeared alien and useless. Her hands felt clumsy and heavy. She picked at a loose thread on her jeans, a nervous habit she hadn't realized she had. A sense of emptiness echoed within her.

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