unhappy - Story 157152 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah pulled her jacket tighter, even though the July air was thick and humid. The rejection email from the law firm still stung, a sharp jab in the gut. Seeing Maya’s beaming face, clutching the acceptance letter in her hand, felt like a betrayal. They had been inseparable since kindergarten, sharing dreams of a future in law.

Sarah’s smile felt brittle, fake. “That’s fantastic, Maya! Really great.” The words felt hollow as they tumbled out.

Inside, she felt a hollow ache. The city sounds seemed to echo in her ears, each honk a reminder of her failure.

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