unhappy - Story 157208 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stale coffee tasted like ash in her mouth. She swirled the lukewarm liquid in the mug, the sound grating on her nerves. The house felt too quiet, the absence of the morning commute a stark emptiness. She hadn’t slept well, and the heavy shadows under her eyes were a testament to her restlessness. She stepped outside, expecting to find her car. The vacant driveway was a slap in the face. She wanted to scream.

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