He stared at the trophy case, its gleaming surface reflecting his desolate expression. The lacrosse team was announced, and he wasn't on it. The coach had praised his technical skill but had said he needed to improve his… aggressiveness. He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture conveying a mix of frustration and defeatedness. He watched the other players celebrating, their joyous shouts piercing the quiet. He'd been so close, and now... he turned and walked away.

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
πŸ’”0.252
πŸ˜”0.249
😒0.241
Suppressed:
de-0.436
la-0.266
l-0.224
/-0.216
--0.199