unhappy - Story 157138 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the dorm room was deafening. Alex sat on the edge of his bed, the book he was supposed to be reading lying forgotten on his lap. He felt a constant knot in his stomach, a persistent ache that wouldn't go away. He felt as though everyone was looking at him, whispering behind his back. The accusation had stripped away his confidence, leaving him exposed and vulnerable. He closed his eyes, wishing he could wake up from this nightmare.

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