unhappy - Story 157227 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sterile scent of the hospital room clung to Sarah as she stared at the familiar box. She had come to clear out her mother's belongings, and the task felt monumental. A familiar weight settled in her chest.

She picked up a handwritten essay, covered in red ink. Sarah remembered the disappointment when she received it back. The essay was about her biggest dream.

She felt a hollowness that seemed to stretch outwards into the vast emptiness of the world. Each saved item was a ghost of a conversation, a reprimand, an unspoken expectation. She felt absolutely drained.

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