The sound of the factory machinery echoed through Leo's bones. He used to manage the advertising campaign. Now, he was overseeing the production line. He felt his hands begin to sweat. He hated this, every single aspect of it.

He rubbed his temples, trying to ward off a headache. The relentless noise was wearing him down. He missed the quiet of his old office, the comfort of his ergonomic chair.

He watched the workers moving with a practiced ease, and he felt a surge ofโ€ฆ something. He wasn't sure what to call it. It was like a hollow ache, consuming him.

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
๐Ÿ˜ž0.317
๐Ÿ’”0.252
๐Ÿ˜”0.249
๐Ÿ˜ข0.241
Suppressed:
de-0.436
la-0.266
l-0.224
/-0.216
--0.199