sad - Story 120899 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I can't believe it," she muttered, pacing back and forth in her small apartment. The notification of her failing grade, a cold, hard "F," had stolen her appetite and left her restless. She ran a hand through her hair, a frantic gesture. The future she had carefully planned now appeared uncertain. She abruptly stopped pacing, and slumped onto the couch. The vibrant colors of the room now seemed dull and washed out. The silence in the apartment felt heavier than usual.

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