unhappy - Story 157164 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The relentless cheerfulness of the event felt stifling to Maya. The vibrant colors, the joyful music, the endless stream of congratulations—it all felt like a bombardment of noise. Her smile, plastered on for the benefit of the other guests, felt stretched and thin. Her shoulders slumped.

She kept catching glimpses of Liam, and each time, her heart would skip a beat, a cold, sharp feeling slicing through her. She felt like an outsider, watching a life she'd once believed was hers unfold without her. She excused herself to the ladies' room, hoping to find a moment of quiet.

She stared into the mirror, her reflection revealing a stranger with tired eyes and a forced smile. She splashed cold water on her face, trying to wash away the feeling of being emotionally depleted.

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