unhappy - Story 157405 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The first thing Julian did after inheriting the house was lock himself in the bathroom. He stared at his reflection, the bags under his eyes a testament to sleepless nights. This house, this legacy, felt like a burden.

He ran the water, letting it cascade over his hands, a futile attempt to wash away the feeling of stagnation. He turned the water off and stared at the mirror. He caught himself clenching his fists.

The sound of his sister, Sarah, knocking on the door startled him. "Julian? Are you okay?" He didn't answer. He just stood there, rooted, until the knocking stopped.

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