unhappy - Story 157306 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Another round of congratulations, Jessica,” the CEO had announced in front of the entire team, presenting a massive bonus to the new hire. Jessica, fresh out of school, beamed. Emily, meanwhile, could only manage a thin smile as she clapped. The feeling in her gut was a cold, constricting thing. It made her shoulders slump and her eyes fix on the floor. She excused herself early from the celebratory gathering, her steps brisk and determined. The elevator seemed to crawl as she made her way down.

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