unhappy - Story 157444 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant pressure in Ben’s head made it difficult to think straight. He couldn’t look at his roommate, Alex, without feeling a surge of something akin to disgust. The discovery of his journal on Alex’s desk had shattered the fragile camaraderie they had built.

He picked at his lunch, pushing the food around his plate. The cafeteria noise was an unbearable cacophony. He didn’t want to talk. He didn't want to explain. He just wanted to be left alone.

His hands shook as he took a sip of water. He felt like his safe space had been invaded. His thoughts, his secrets, now exposed to someone who, he realized with a pang, he didn't even trust. He felt depleted.

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