unhappy - Story 157077 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The days were a blur for Clara. The monotony of her routine, the constant pressure, suffocated her. She felt like a balloon slowly losing air. The only time she felt truly herself was when she was talking to her online friend, "BookwormBabe."

BookwormBabe revealed she was in the same city. Fear prickled at Clara's skin. The idea of being seen, of being judged, filled her with unease. She found it hard to believe that anyone could be so kind.

Still, she decided to meet. When BookwormBabe embraced her, Clara felt the tension drain from her body. They spent the day at a bookstore. By the end of the day, Clara felt like she could finally breathe again.

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