"I just don't see the need," she muttered, pacing her kitchen. The fence wasn't even up yet, but she could *feel* it – the sense of division, the closure. Her breath hitched.

She'd spent weeks cultivating the garden she was so proud of. Now, the image of it, partially blocked, felt like a deep cut. She rubbed her arms, her skin prickling with goosebumps.

The kettle whistled, a shrill, piercing sound. She turned off the stove, suddenly without appetite. The house, usually a sanctuary, felt cold and desolate.

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:
S0.339
😞0.317
💔0.252
😔0.249
😢0.241
Suppressed:
de-0.436
la-0.266
l-0.224
/-0.216
--0.199