unhappy - Story 157194 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell rang, startling Mark. He opened the door to his daughter, Chloe, who immediately began recounting her first day. "Mr. Davies is so funny!" she gushed. A muscle twitched in Mark's jaw. Mr. Davies. The man who had once told him he was "disappointing."

He forced a smile, his response clipped and brief. He felt a sudden, unwelcome heat in his cheeks. He recalled the countless hours spent feeling inadequate, struggling to meet Mr. Davies's impossible standards.

Mark retreated to the quiet of his study, closing the door firmly behind him. He needed to be alone for a moment. He needed time to regain his composure. He felt a profound sense of foreboding about the upcoming school year.

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