unhappy - Story 157479 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I saw the package and sighed. "To Mr. Reginald Davies," it read. The previous tenant, a man I knew nothing about. I already wanted to get back into bed. The thought of opening the package seemed like too much effort. Everything did.

I kicked the package to the side with my foot. The dust motes danced in the single shaft of sunlight that illuminated the living room. I didn't care to do anything. The day stretched ahead, a vast and meaningless expanse.

I pulled the covers back over my head. Maybe sleep would offer a temporary reprieve.

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