unhappy - Story 157079 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in Michael's apartment was deafening. He drifted from room to room, a restless ghost. His job was going well, but inside, he was empty. His online friend, "CosmicComet," offered a beacon of light. They'd become friends through their love of astronomy.

CosmicComet revealed she lived nearby. Michael's heart sank. He hadn't seen anyone outside of work in months. He was used to being alone.

He agreed to meet. The planetarium was stunning, the perfect place to meet. After the show, CosmicComet turned to him and smiled. Michael found himself smiling back, his chest lighter than it had been in years.

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