unhappy - Story 157240 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar scent of old books and dust usually comforted her, but today the library felt like a prison. The words of her diary, now published, seemed to echo from the shelves. She felt a profound sense of betrayal.

She tried to concentrate on a book, but the words blurred. Her eyes burned, and a wave of nausea rolled through her. She was unable to swallow or breath.

She slammed the book shut and rushed out of the library, leaving everything behind. She had to get away, to find somewhere, anywhere, where the echoes of her past could not reach her.

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