unhappy - Story 157166 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room vibrated with the boisterous energy of the celebration, but within Liam's chest, a profound stillness echoed. He felt a disconnect, as if he were observing everything from behind a thick pane of glass. The joyous atmosphere felt alien and distant. He stood by the bar, nursing a drink, not quite tasting the alcohol.

He saw Chloe near the dance floor, her laughter reaching him like a distant echo. A surge of frustration coursed through him. He hadn't expected to see her here. The knowledge of her presence tightened his jaw. He wanted to go home, to retreat to the quiet solitude of his own space.

He took another sip of his drink, the bitterness of the liquor a stark contrast to the saccharine sweetness of the wedding.

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