unhappy - Story 157209 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of nausea churned in his gut. He gripped the edge of the counter, fighting to remain upright. The world had shrunk, the colors had faded, and everything felt distant. He’d poured himself a large glass of whiskey, hoping for some oblivion. Then the tow truck had arrived. The metallic screech, the rumble of the engine – it was all too much. He slid down the wall, his legs giving way, and sat on the cold tile floor.

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