unhappy - Story 157369 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He tore open the card, the crisp paper separating with a satisfying rip. Inside, a generic greeting, a pre-printed message of joy. He scoffed, the sound sharp and humorless. The world seemed to be closing in, the walls of his apartment closing in, the days all bleeding together. He crumpled the card and tossed it, a basketball shot, into the garbage. He turned and started the coffee machine.

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