He stared at the screen, the words of his diary now echoing in his head. Every sentence, every confession felt like an open wound. He felt a strange combination of fury and shame, a simmering discontent.

He threw his phone across the room. The loud crack offered only fleeting satisfaction. He paced around the confines of his small apartment, seeking a release from the mounting tension.

He paused by the window, the city lights a distant, indifferent glow. He felt utterly disconnected, adrift in a sea of judgment.

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:
S0.339
😞0.317
💔0.252
😔0.249
😢0.241
Suppressed:
de-0.436
la-0.266
l-0.224
/-0.216
--0.199