He had to force himself to maintain a semblance of composure as he trained the new hire, Daniel. Each instruction, each explanation, was a reminder of what he was losing. A knot formed in his throat, making it difficult to speak. He rubbed his temples, trying to ward off the headache that was slowly creeping in. He felt a deep sense of resentment, an emotion he couldn't control. The air in the office felt thick, stifling. He clenched his jaw, trying to keep the anger inside.

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