unhappy - Story 157204 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The metallic tang of blood filled her mouth, the taste a bitter reminder. She'd bitten the inside of her cheek until it bled. Her knuckles were white, clutching the worn leather of her purse so tightly she thought she might rip it. The silence of the morning, broken only by the chirping of birds, was now punctuated by the raw emptiness of the driveway. Her car was gone. A low moan escaped her lips.

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