unhappy - Story 157437 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art gallery seemed to taunt her. She stood before a canvas, a copy of her own artwork. This was just another Tuesday. A tear escaped, tracing a path down her cheek. Someone had stolen her art and rebranded it as their own. She squeezed her eyes shut, wishing she could find the strength to move forward. The ache in her chest grew with each passing moment, making it difficult to breathe. The world felt too big, too unforgiving.

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