unhappy - Story 157229 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her voice was raw, a broken echo in the empty house. "Why, Mom?" Eleanor whispered, tracing a finger along the cover of a childhood book report. She stood in the middle of a room filled with boxes and bags, her mother's belongings. The task was overwhelming.

She unearthed a box filled with her artwork, the colours faded, the paper brittle. A sharp pain pierced her heart.

The burden of expectation felt heavy. She felt a suffocating sense of isolation, a deep chill within her bones. The world felt empty and still. Nothing seemed to matter.

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