unhappy - Story 157207 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to tilt on its axis. He stumbled back, nearly tripping over the garden gnome that always watched from the edge of the lawn. The bright morning sun, normally a source of comfort, now seemed to mock his misfortune. His car. Gone. A knot formed in his stomach. The realization of what he’d just lost. The convenience. The freedom. He felt a deep, profound sense of helplessness wash over 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