unhappy - Story 157287 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sterile white walls of the hospital room seemed to close in on Leo. He leaned against the window, watching the rain blur the city lights. Then, a friend request: Samantha Hayes. The girl who used to call him names.

He felt a familiar hollowness take root. He was here because of an accident he had no control over. This felt like another attack. He just wanted to go home.

His fingers slowly reached for the phone. This was the only thing standing between him and sanity.

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