unhappy - Story 157149 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the art gallery was deafening. Chloe stared at the empty space where her mentor, Madame Dubois's, latest painting had hung. No farewell, just a closed studio. No trace, only an unsettling emptiness.

She felt a coldness creep into her limbs, a slow, creeping freeze. She stood frozen, unable to move. Her throat was tight, making it difficult to breathe. The vibrant colours of the paintings surrounding her seemed to mock her with their brightness.

She clenched her fists, her nails digging into her palms. She felt a profound sense of betrayal. The world around her seemed to tilt.

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