He slammed the door, the flimsy plastic handle protesting with a groan. The late afternoon light, already fading to a bruised purple, did nothing to alleviate the gloom inside the small apartment. He ran a hand through his already messy hair, leaving it standing on end. "Seriously?" he muttered, the word a rasp. His gaze flicked to the empty space where his beat-up sedan had been parked. The note, clipped with a flimsy plastic clip, was taunting him from the windshield. The landlord. Always something.

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:
S0.339
😞0.317
💔0.252
😔0.249
😢0.241
Suppressed:
de-0.436
la-0.266
l-0.224
/-0.216
--0.199