The attic's dimness amplified the sense of isolation. Susan felt lost, adrift in a sea of memories she didn't want. The house, her haven, was now a constant reminder of how things had changed.

She discovered a collection of paintings, stacked against a wall. She pulled one out, the canvas depicting a vibrant landscape. It was a beautiful scene, but Susan found no solace in it.

She dropped the painting and let out a sigh. The air in the attic felt heavy, stifling. She fled.

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
💔0.252
😔0.249
😢0.241
Suppressed:
de-0.436
la-0.266
l-0.224
/-0.216
--0.199