unhappy - Story 157335 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"But…but why?" Emily whispered, her voice barely audible. She traced the words on the flyer with a trembling finger: "Mama Rosa's: Sadly, We Must Close." The restaurant had been a constant in her life, a place of celebrations and quiet dinners alike. Tears welled in her eyes. Her favorite booth, the smell of simmering tomato sauce, the way Mama Rosa always knew her order…all gone. She felt a cold, leaden weight settle in her stomach.

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