He stared at the blank screen, the words he needed refusing to form. Daniel re-read the notice: "Burger Bliss: Goodbye, Cruel World." The restaurant was his go-to place for a pick-me-up. The juicy burgers, the crispy fries, the friendly banter… all gone. He felt a sharp jab of disappointment, a deep sense of dissatisfaction. He slammed his laptop shut, then got up and aimlessly paced the room, a caged lion, his mind spinning, lost in thought.

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:
S0.339
😞0.317
πŸ’”0.252
πŸ˜”0.249
😒0.241
Suppressed:
de-0.436
la-0.266
l-0.224
/-0.216
--0.199