sad - Story 120997 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art gallery seemed to bleed together before Sarah's eyes. Her college application essay, recounting her challenges with creativity block, was now on display. Her internal world, usually a sanctuary of self-expression, felt violated.

She picked at the corner of her lip. She had been thrilled when she got accepted to art school. Now, the validation felt like a curse. The very act of creating felt impossible.

She found herself avoiding her fellow students, afraid of their pitying glances and the inevitable conversations. The usual joy of painting was replaced by a sense of dread. She felt hollow.

She left the gallery abruptly, the weight of the world pressing down on her shoulders. She wanted to escape, to run, to hide.

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