unhappy - Story 157269 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A knot formed in Anna’s stomach as she looked out at the basketball court. The tryouts were over. She could see the team practicing, their faces bright with excitement. Her own face felt tight, her jaw clenched. She had dreamed of being a part of this. The coach had said she was a good player, but not quite good enough. She took a deep breath, fighting back the sting of unshed tears. She walked away, her steps heavy.

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