sad - Story 120903 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No," Clara murmured, shaking her head as she read the email. The news, delivered with cold efficiency, felt like a punch to the gut. Her meticulously planned future, the one she’d worked so hard for, was dissolving.

She slumped in her chair, the screen reflecting her drawn face. Her breath caught in her throat, a tight knot forming. She wanted to yell, to scream, to lash out at someone, anyone.

She walked to the window, gazing out at the familiar landscape, normally a source of peace, but today, everything was tainted. The vibrant greens of the trees appeared muted, and a strange quiet settled over 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