unhappy - Story 157154 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sterile white walls of the hospital waiting room seemed to close in on Clara. She fidgeted, adjusting the strap of her handbag for the tenth time. Outside, the rain lashed against the windows, mirroring the storm brewing within her. The receptionist had just called her name, following the announcement that she hadn't got the nurse position.

Across the room, Emily, her friend and fellow applicant, sat with a triumphant smile. Clara managed a weak smile in return, but her stomach churned. The weight of disappointment settled on her shoulders.

She closed her eyes, trying to block out the rising tide of… something.

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