unhappy - Story 157308 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive home was quiet. Maria gripped the steering wheel so tightly her knuckles were white. The radio was playing upbeat music, which only grated on her nerves. The news had shattered her carefully constructed sense of satisfaction. It was a fresh wound, the knowledge of the new hire's earnings, and she couldn't stop replaying it. She felt a profound sense of weariness, a deep exhaustion that seeped into her bones. She pulled into her driveway, the house looming before her, and the thought of going inside filled her with dread.

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