unhappy - Story 157205 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He pulled at the collar of his shirt, feeling suffocated. The air in his stuffy living room felt thick and heavy, like a woolen blanket in summer. He'd been looking forward to the drive, to the open road, to the escape. Now, the space outside, usually filled with his motorcycle, was vacant. It was a bleak reminder of his failure to get things right. He sunk onto the sofa, the cushions doing nothing to comfort him. The injustice of it all weighed heavily on him.

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