unhappy - Story 157235 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The digital world was suddenly a minefield. Each click, each swipe, felt like stepping into a trap. The diary, her diary, was trending. The notifications wouldn't stop. A dull headache pulsed behind her eyes.

She stared out the window, watching the leaves swirl in the autumn wind. A hollow echo resonated within her, a vast emptiness that nothing could fill. She craved escape. She wanted to erase everything.

She picked at the corner of the windowsill, peeling away the paint. Each flake that fell felt like a lost piece of her identity.

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