unhappy - Story 157362 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the card, the bright balloons and celebratory font mocking him. Another year. Another trip around the sun. His apartment, usually a haven, felt suffocating. He’d barely spoken to anyone in weeks, the silence amplifying the weight in his chest. A tremor in his hands. He smoothed the card out, then slowly tore it in half, the sound thin and insignificant in the echoing stillness. His breath hitched. He wasn't even sure *who* might have sent it.

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