unhappy - Story 157434 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The barista called out, "Latte for Sarah!" He watched her, a woman he'd known for years, take a sip of the coffee he'd spent his life perfecting. It was his recipe, stolen and rebranded by the new coffee shop around the corner, which was now filled with happy customers. He tried to ignore the churning in his stomach. The aroma, once a source of pride, now triggered a hollow ache within him. He turned, the fluorescent lights of the cafe seemed to mock him. The warmth of the cafe felt like an insult.

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