unhappy - Story 157440 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The piano keys felt cold beneath his fingertips. He stared at the sheet music, the familiar melody now twisted and changed. He’d composed this piece, "Serenade for Emily," years ago, the only piece that ever made him feel connected to the world. Now, it was being played on the radio, adapted and credited to someone else. He felt the blood drain from his face. The studio felt smaller, suffocating. He wanted to scream. He wanted it all to stop. He wanted to disappear.

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