unhappy - Story 157439 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bright lights of the food festival were grating on her. She wandered through the stalls, the aroma of spices and fried foods filling her nostrils. It reminded her of her own food stall, the one she'd poured her heart and soul into. Now, her recipe, the "Sunshine Salsa," was being sold by a rival vendor, advertised with a smile that felt like a slap in the face. She felt a heavy weight in her chest. The joy of the event had become completely foreign. Her stomach churned.

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