The city lights blurred through the rain-streaked window. Anya stared at the results on her laptop screen, the words swimming before her eyes. She felt the sudden urge to pack a bag and run, to escape the suffocating weight of the information. Her carefully constructed life felt like a house of cards.

She got up and started pacing. The apartment, her sanctuary, felt like a prison. She ran her hand through her hair, the familiar gesture failing to provide any comfort. She was alone, lost in a sea of uncertainty, with no direction and no compass.

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
💔0.252
😔0.249
😢0.241
Suppressed:
de-0.436
la-0.266
l-0.224
/-0.216
--0.199