unhappy - Story 157070 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the library was deafening. Each rustle of paper, each cough, amplified the hollowness within him. He sat staring at the screen, the rejection email still open, the words a constant reminder of his failure.

He felt a deep sense of shame. He’d told everyone he was a shoo-in. Now, what would he tell them? His carefully constructed facade crumbled.

He closed the laptop with a snap, the sound echoing in the otherwise silent library. He rose and walked away, the rejection letter clutched tightly in his hand, a tangible symbol of his dashed hopes.

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