unhappy - Story 157420 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the world, or at least his own miniature, personal version of it, seemed to crush down on Thomas. Another failed interview, another rejection letter, another day closer to the abyss of despair. The world seemed to mock him, the sunlight too bright, the birdsong too cheerful. Then, he saw the wallet.

He picked it up, feeling a knot of something constrict in his chest. Inside, a mountain of cash. He ran a hand through his hair and the feeling of emptiness was so pervasive it threatened to consume him. He could run. He could disappear. The thought was tempting, but it left a bitter taste on his tongue. What was the point?

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