unhappy - Story 157449 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The laughter of the other students in the hallway felt like a personal insult to Emily. The discovery of her journal on her roommate's desk had left her with a feeling of profound isolation. Her breath caught in her throat every time she had to face her roommate.

She walked slowly to class, dragging her feet. The weight in her chest was so heavy, it felt like she was carrying the world on her shoulders. She wanted to call her mother, but she couldn't form the words.

She sat in the back of the classroom, avoiding eye contact. She just wanted to be anywhere but here.

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