unhappy - Story 157429 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Class of '08 Reunion!" the banner on the website screamed, a digital assault on her senses. Chloe slammed her laptop shut, the sudden click echoing in the otherwise silent room. She sat back in her chair, the weight of the day pressing down on her. The invitation, in her mind, had become a symbol of her failures.

She felt a hot flush creep up her neck. Her gaze flickered over the cluttered desk, a testament to her stalled career. She felt an overwhelming sense of disappointment. Chloe buried her face in her hands, her shoulders shaking with silent sobs. The reunion, she knew, would be an exercise in self-inflicted misery.

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