sad - Story 120908 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cafeteria was a cacophony of murmurs, a tidal wave of stunned chatter. Sarah, usually laughing, now sat rigidly in her chair, picking at a stray piece of bread. Her appetite vanished.

She looked at her friends, their faces mirroring her own turmoil. The bond that had kept them afloat for so long felt suddenly fragile, brittle. She didn’t know how to move forward.

She stood abruptly, pushing her chair back with a loud screech. Without a word, she turned and walked away, the crowded room suddenly feeling vast and isolating.

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