unhappy - Story 157206 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Fantastic," she said to the empty air, her voice flat, devoid of emotion. She stood on the porch, arms crossed, staring at the empty space where her pride and joy, a cherry-red pickup truck, once resided. Her gaze drifted to the pristine lawn, mocking her with its perfect symmetry. The tow truck's departure was still a fresh wound, the metallic squeal echoing in her memory. She was tired of the relentless pressure, the constant feeling of being overwhelmed.

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