unhappy - Story 157403 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"What do you want for dinner?" Leo asked, his voice rough. He stared out the kitchen window at the overgrown garden, the weeds like grasping claws. The house felt like a cage, trapping him inside a whirlwind of grief.

His sister, Maya, didn't answer right away. She was at the dining table, meticulously polishing silverware. Each stroke seemed to take an eternity. Her lips were pressed into a thin line.

"I don't care," she finally replied, her voice barely a whisper. Leo ran a hand through his hair, the gesture weary. He just wanted the day to end. He wanted the heavy weight inside him to disappear.

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