The vibrant colors of the Hindu temple, usually enchanting, felt jarring. My cousin, Liam, had embraced Hinduism. I felt a dull ache in my head. I walked through the streets, the familiar city suddenly feeling foreign and strange.

I kept replaying the conversation in my mind, each word a painful jab. My steps became hurried, a desperate attempt to outrun the rising tide ofโ€ฆ something. I felt a deep-seated apprehension, a sense of something important slipping away.

Emotion: unhappy

Cluster: Sadness / Despair
PC1 (Valence): -1.62 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): -0.78

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion unhappy. 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 unhappy stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the unhappy emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the unhappy vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
S0.339
๐Ÿ˜ž0.317
๐Ÿ’”0.252
๐Ÿ˜”0.249
๐Ÿ˜ข0.241
Suppressed:
de-0.436
la-0.266
l-0.224
/-0.216
--0.199