sad - Story 120938 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The roses were a cruel reminder, a reminder of what was gone. She clutched the bouquet tightly, its thorns pricking her skin. She had been expecting something different today. Something… more.

She sat on the sofa, unmoving, the scent of the flowers filling the room. The silence was deafening. The ticking of the clock was the only sound she could hear. Each tick felt like a blow. The beautiful flowers only seemed to highlight the vast, empty space inside.

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