sad - Story 120936 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Another one," she sighed, the word barely a whisper. She stared at the lilies, their stark white heads a jarring contrast to the dimness of the room. No name, no hint. A mystery. A burden.

She carried the bouquet to the window, the glass cold against her cheek. The city lights twinkled in the distance, but the view held no appeal. The air felt thick, difficult to breathe. She wished she could just… disappear. She closed her eyes, and the tears started, silently streaming down her face.

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