unhappy - Story 157080 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world was a kaleidoscope of vibrant colors and booming sounds for Olivia, but she felt as though she was looking through a cloudy lens. Everyone around her seemed happy, while she was simply… existing. Her online friend, "DreamWeaver", always knew how to make her feel grounded.

DreamWeaver let Olivia know that they lived in the same town. Olivia's fingers went numb. She felt like she was a fish out of water.

She decided to meet. When she saw her, Olivia could feel the tension ease from her shoulders. The two took a stroll through a local park. As they sat on the grass, Olivia felt her heart rate even out. She was content, and that was enough.

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