unhappy - Story 157214 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering neon sign of the diner cast an artificial glow on Amelia's face. She nursed her coffee, the bitter liquid doing nothing to soothe the tightness in her stomach. Across the booth, Leo was animated, regaling her with stories of their college graduation trip.

"Remember the time we…" he started, but Amelia cut him off with a forced smile.

Leo described a carefree road trip filled with hilarious mishaps and shared inside jokes. Amelia remembered the relentless pressure to maintain the illusion of being alright, the gnawing anxiety about her future, and the silent resentment she felt towards him for appearing so unburdened. The happy reminiscence felt like a painful reminder of what she wasn't.

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