unhappy - Story 157279 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the archives was suffocating. Laura, now the head archivist, used to be the head of the marketing department. She felt the weight of the past press down on her.

She touched a leather-bound book, the pages brittle with age. She missed the vibrant energy of the marketing team, the buzz of meetings, the collaborative spirit.

She closed her eyes, trying to imagine her old life. She took a deep breath. She was alone. She looked at the stacks of books and documents. She felt a cold wave of disappointment wash over her.

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