sad - Story 120995 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, that's just great," Chloe muttered, the words barely audible. Her essay, detailing her struggle with her eating disorder, was now available to the world. She felt exposed, vulnerable, stripped bare.

She didn't want to leave the house. The thought of running into someone she knew, or worse, someone who had read her essay, filled her with dread. The words on the page no longer belonged to her.

She sat on her bed, fiddling with the loose thread on her blanket. She felt a knot forming in her stomach. Everything felt wrong. She wished she could rewind time.

Chloe's appetite had disappeared. She pushed aside the half-eaten food on her desk, and looked in the mirror, finding a stranger.

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