sad - Story 120993 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunlight streaming through Elara's window seemed to mock her. The essay, her college application's shining star, was now being showcased to thousands of people. It detailed her family's financial hardships and how she'd overcome them. Now, it was just… a pity party for public consumption. A wave of exhaustion washed over her.

She pushed her untouched breakfast around her plate. She didn't want to talk to anyone. She’d always struggled to feel truly seen. Now, she felt dissected, analyzed, and misunderstood.

Her phone vibrated with notifications - likes, comments, supportive words. She ignored them all. The weight of it all was crushing. She couldn't bring herself to care.

She closed her eyes, trying to conjure the feeling of calm, but only found a deep hollowness.

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