unhappy - Story 157278 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, this is… different,” Ben muttered to himself, surveying his new workspace in the mailroom. He used to be in charge of project development. The transition was unexpected. He felt a dull ache in his chest.

He ran a hand through his hair, dislodging a few stray strands. The smell of cardboard and envelopes filled the air, a stark contrast to the aroma of coffee and fresh pastries he was used to.

He picked up a box cutter, the cold metal a harsh contrast to his soft hands. This change felt like a complete betrayal of his abilities. He felt… deflated.

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