Mark slammed his fist on the desk, the force rattling the books. He had the unsettling sensation of being watched. He couldn't shake the memory of seeing his journal open on Liam’s bed. He found himself avoiding their shared space.

He needed to get out. The air in the room felt thick, stale. The world had gone gray, everything seemed dull. He just wanted to be rid of the feeling that he'd been violated.

He grabbed his jacket and bolted out the door, the slam echoing behind him. The cool night air offered little solace, but at least he wasn't trapped.

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:
S0.339
😞0.317
πŸ’”0.252
πŸ˜”0.249
😒0.241
Suppressed:
de-0.436
la-0.266
l-0.224
/-0.216
--0.199