unhappy - Story 157181 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chipped mug warmed Amelia’s hands as she stared out the kitchen window. Rain lashed against the glass, mirroring the storm inside her. Lately, Mark had been different. Distant. He'd started taking calls in the garden, muttering under his breath, always turning away when she approached. The aroma of brewing coffee did little to soothe the tightness in her chest. She took a long, slow sip, the bitterness strangely comforting.

Yesterday, she'd caught him hanging up, his face flushed. "Just work," he'd mumbled, avoiding her gaze. Amelia knew the lie. Work didn't involve hushed tones and furtive glances. It didn't involve the tremor in his hands when he thought she wasn't looking. She felt a knot forming in her stomach, a familiar ache she couldn’t quite identify.

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