"Well, this is… unexpected," she said, her voice hollow. The card, with its glittery β€œHappy Birthday!” banner, seemed to vibrate with a false cheer. She felt a profound weariness, a deep-seated exhaustion she couldn't shake. Her fingers traced the embossed lettering, and she swallowed hard. She didn't want to open it. She took it to her desk and put it in a drawer and shut the drawer. She had so many more important things to do, she knew.

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