unhappy - Story 157298 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news hit him like a physical blow. He stared at the text message, the words blurring before his eyes. All the effort, the planning, the secret meetings… for what? He sank onto the couch, the cushions suddenly feeling hard and unyielding. The silence in the apartment was deafening, amplifying the unsettling thrumming in his ears. He clenched his fists, the nails digging into his palms. The disappointment settled in, a heavy, cold weight.

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