sad - Story 120989 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her breath hitched in her throat as she read the letter. The walls of her apartment, once a source of comfort, now seemed to press in on her. The building was converting to condos. Jessica found herself replaying old memories, each moment a treasured jewel she was about to lose.

She opened the window, the fresh air doing little to soothe the unsettling ache that had taken root in her. She watched the birds flitting about, feeling an odd kinship with their ephemeral nature.

The silence in her apartment was deafening, the solitude both a comfort and a torment. It was a silence filled with what-ifs and the ghost of what was.

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