unhappy - Story 157458 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colours of the art gallery seemed to mock her. Sarah, a successful painter, usually found inspiration in such spaces, but today, everything felt…wrong. The canvases seemed to lack depth, the colours faded, mirroring the hollowness that had consumed her.

She'd been in a creative slump for weeks, a complete block. Now she realized the reason: the results, proving that the woman she knew was not her biological mother, had stolen her ability to feel. She wandered through the exhibit, the silence of the gallery pressing down on her.

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