unhappy - Story 157186 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced the living room, the Persian rug doing little to soften his steps. His knuckles were white from clenching his fists. The calls had begun recently, and were always at the most inconvenient times. They were always hidden from him. He couldn't shake the sensation that something was terribly off-kilter.

He couldn't meet her eyes, her gaze, when she entered the room. Her smile seemed forced, her laughter brittle. He didn't know what it was, but the world had somehow been twisted, made difficult, and the knot in his stomach only tightened.

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