unhappy - Story 157339 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her throat tightened. Sarah read the news about "The Cozy Corner Cafe" on her phone. Her hand shook as she put her phone on the table. The cafe was where she and her husband had their first date. Now it was all just gone. She felt a crushing sense of loss. She felt numb, and the world seemed to tilt ever so slightly on its axis. She started to cry, her shoulders shaking, not even able to remember when she last felt such profound sorrow.

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