sad - Story 120945 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house was too quiet. The soft glow of the lamp felt insufficient to chase away the shadows that seemed to lengthen with each passing minute. Amelia sat on the floor, the open book resting in her lap. The story was a love letter of sorts, yet it felt like a cage. The author, her girlfriend, had written about a life they didn't share. Amelia felt a tightening in her chest.

She closed her eyes, trying to focus on something else, anything else, but the words echoed in her mind. Her gaze was drawn back to the pages. The words felt like a physical weight, pressing her down. She swallowed hard, wishing the floor would swallow her whole.

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