unhappy - Story 157169 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The meticulously planned décor, the floral arrangements, the perfectly executed dinner—all of it felt forced, artificial. He felt like an actor in a play he didn't want to be in. He took another gulp of his drink, hoping it would help him tolerate the suffocating atmosphere. He felt a sharp pang of melancholy.

He saw Olivia, and his chest tightened. The woman she was with, the casual way they held hands, sent a jolt of something he thought he was over. He wanted to escape, but knew he could not.

He felt the smile he was trying to muster turn brittle, and he quickly turned away, focusing on the intricate pattern of the wallpaper.

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