sad - Story 120996 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the glowing screen, the words of his essay blurring before his eyes. It was about his journey of self-discovery, his struggle with his identity. Now, it was a public spectacle. He felt an icy grip around his heart.

He’d avoided all his friends for the past week. He couldn't face them, couldn't bear their well-meaning smiles and forced understanding. He was supposed to be celebrating, not… this.

He wandered through his apartment, restless, a caged animal. The air felt thick, heavy, impossible to breathe. He wished he could go back to the time before he'd written the essay.

He grabbed his keys, and drove. He just needed to be somewhere other than here, somewhere quiet.

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