sad - Story 120956 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cramped workshop felt even smaller than usual, the air thick with the scent of sawdust and unfulfilled dreams. Liam stared at the time capsule, its polished metal surface reflecting his weary face. He'd discovered it while clearing out his late father's toolshed, a place now permeated with the ghosts of lost conversations.

He ran a hand across his forehead, pushing back the strands of hair that perpetually fell into his eyes. He felt a profound sense of weariness, a bone-deep fatigue that seeped into every fiber of his being. The whir of a nearby fan was a droning reminder of the passage of time.

He picked up a hammer, then put it down, unable to bring himself to open the box. The metal was cold against his fingertips, a chilling reminder of the past.

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