sad - Story 120919 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the garden felt profound, a hollow echo of the emptiness within him. Ethan stood beside his neighbor, Mr. Bellweather, the subject of their conversation the tall, stately maple that graced the property line. The way he felt just now was so crushing, he had difficulty standing.

Mr. Bellweather was detailing the tree's encroaching roots, the potential problems they posed. Ethan just stared at the ground. He hadn't touched his paints in weeks. The tree's presence was a comfort, a reminder of the quiet stability he craved.

The prospect of its removal felt like a betrayal, a further erosion of the little peace he had left. He felt like he would break, if he lost it. He swallowed hard, trying to keep the tears at bay.

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