unhappy - Story 157069 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her stomach churned. The vibrant hues of her paintings on the wall felt jarring and mocking, a painful reminder of her lost dreams. She had planned to study art in Florence; now, the dream felt impossible.

She collapsed onto her bed, pulling the covers over her head, shutting out the world. The soft, familiar scent of the linens offered no comfort. It felt like her safe place had become a prison.

A sob escaped, then another, until she was shaking with quiet desperation. The weight of her disappointment pressed down, suffocating her.

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:

`S`	0.339
`😞`	0.317
`💔`	0.252
`😔`	0.249
`😢`	0.241

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.436
`la`	-0.266
`l`	-0.224
`/`	-0.216
`-`	-0.199