unhappy - Story 157197 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows, mirroring the storm brewing inside Alan. His daughter, Lily, had skipped into the kitchen, a bright smile on her face. "Guess who my teacher is?" she'd asked. "Mr. Carter!" Alan had felt his world shrink. Mr. Carter. The man who had relentlessly criticised his artwork, telling him his paintings were "immature."

He busied himself with making dinner, avoiding Lily's gaze. He felt a prickling sensation on his skin, a feeling of being watched. He didn't want Lily to experience what he had.

The knife slipped in his hand. He swore under his breath, the cut a minor physical expression of the emotional sting he was feeling. The thought of Lily facing judgment was unbearable.

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