unhappy - Story 157447 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant throbbing behind Maria’s eyes made it hard to concentrate on her studies. She found her journal out of place. The violation felt sharp and painful. The usual joy she found in her friends was gone.

She tried to study, but the words swam before her eyes. Every sentence seemed to mock her, reminding her of the breach of trust. She felt like she was drowning in the vast space of her feelings. She found herself sighing often.

She closed her laptop with a snap. She was just too tired, too depleted to continue. She just needed quiet, a place to hide.

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