unhappy - Story 157219 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the photograph, the grainy image capturing a moment in time. It was a picture from their high school graduation. He found himself avoiding eye contact when talking to Amy lately.

Amy texted him, happy about the memories they made that day.

He remembered only the crushing weight of expectation, his fear of failure, and the way he’d felt invisible. Amy’s memories of the day, of shared joy and a bright future, felt utterly alien to him. The chasm between their perspectives deepened with each passing day. He tossed the picture back on the table.

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