unhappy - Story 157156 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The salty tang of the ocean air did nothing to soothe Amelia. She stood on the pier, watching the waves crash against the weathered wooden pilings. She and Chloe had both applied for the marine biologist internship. Chloe, bubbly and outgoing, had secured the position.

Amelia clenched her fists. The wind whipped her hair across her face, stinging her cheeks. The vastness of the sea suddenly felt oppressive, the horizon distant and unattainable. She let out a short, sharp breath.

She turned her back to the ocean.

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