unhappy - Story 157333 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No," Clara muttered, the word a strangled gasp. She reread the note taped to the door of "The Golden Spoon." CLOSED. FOREVER. Her shoulders slumped. Her carefully curated Friday night ritual was shattered. The aroma of simmering spices, the hushed murmur of the regulars, the feeling of belonging…all of it gone. A wave of exhaustion washed over her. She kicked a pebble across the empty parking lot, a small act of defiance against this sudden, unwanted change.

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