unhappy - Story 157126 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The airport's echoing announcements felt like a mocking symphony to Robert. He sat, staring intently at his reflection in the terminal window. He was supposed to be closing a critical business deal today. The delay might cost him everything.

He drummed his fingers on the table. He felt a deep, gnawing anxiety. He tried to calculate the damage, assess the alternatives, but his mind was muddled. Every minute that ticked by felt like an hour.

His phone buzzed with an email. It was his competitor. The smile on his rival's face in the attached picture felt like a personal insult. Robert took a shuddering breath. He felt utterly and entirely defeated.

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