sad - Story 120958 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sterile white walls of the doctor's waiting room offered no comfort. Martha clutched the time capsule tightly, the cool metal a small comfort against her clammy hands. The inscription, a childish scrawl, read "Secrets". She’d been staring at it for hours, the air in the room thick with unspoken anxieties.

She felt a knot tighten in her stomach, and she couldn't swallow. Her gaze became fixated on the ticking clock. She felt a dull ache behind her eyes, a familiar harbinger of an oncoming storm. The sterile environment amplified her sense of unease.

She closed her eyes, imagining the contents of the capsule, bracing herself for what she might find. The wait felt interminable.

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