unhappy - Story 157295 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone call ended, and Emily felt her shoulders slump. The news, delivered in a rush of apologies and excuses, landed like a physical blow. She went to the mirror, staring at her reflection. She looked… deflated, somehow. The elaborate hairdo she'd spent an hour perfecting felt foolish, the vibrant dress hanging in the closet seemed frivolous. She just stood there, the carefully applied lipstick suddenly feeling thick and artificial. She ran a hand through her hair, smoothing it down. The evening stretched before her, an expanse of emptiness.

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