The rejection weighed on her, a physical pressure on her chest. Chloe was sure she would make the gymnastics team this year. The coach had been giving her positive feedback during tryouts. Now, standing on the edge of the mats, she watched the selected girls practice, their every move sharp and precise. She sat down, pulling her knees to her chest. A wave of exhaustion washed over her. She knew she could work harder, but the thought of it right now seemed impossible.

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