unhappy - Story 157129 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her eyes were fixed on the flickering screen that displayed the status of her flight: Delayed. Again. It was a vicious cycle of waiting and disappointment, and Sophie felt the full weight of it crushing her. Her son's graduation ceremony was looming.

She ran a hand through her hair, the movement jerky and impatient. The thought of missing this momentous occasion made her stomach churn. She wandered over to a newsstand, grabbing a magazine but not looking at it.

She felt a hollowness in her chest, a sense of disconnect from the world around her. She wandered through the terminal, trying to find a place that offered solace. But every corner seemed to echo her frustration.

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