sad - Story 120935 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flowers were a punch in the gut. A beautiful, unwanted punch. He hadn't expected them. The sudden, unannounced arrival felt…wrong. It felt like a cruel joke, a taunt. He felt a deep, abiding ache in his chest, a hollow space that echoed with everything missing.

He tossed the lilies onto the floor, the delicate heads scattering. He felt the sting of tears behind his eyes. He wrapped his arms around himself. Outside, the rain began to fall, mirroring his own internal landscape.

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