sad - Story 120999 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A tremor ran through Javier’s body as he read the online publication. The essay, detailing his family’s difficult immigration story, was now a case study. He felt like his history had been stolen and reshaped.

He skipped lunch. The hunger pangs mingled with a deeper emptiness. His sister tried to talk to him, but the words caught in his throat.

He couldn’t look his parents in the eyes. Their struggles, once a source of strength, now felt like a burden. The publication felt like a betrayal. His story had been reduced to a headline.

He retreated to his room, burying himself under the covers. The past, his life, felt like an open wound.

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