unhappy - Story 157490 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar street was unfamiliar now, the house a stranger. Ethan walked up the front steps, each footfall heavy, his movements slow and deliberate. He stared. He took his time. He didn't want to miss a single detail.

He tried to conjure images, but they were already fading, blurring. He reached out and touched the chipped paint on the doorframe. The wood felt rough, cold.

He thought of the future, a future without the past. A future without this house. A future without… everything. He felt a deep, chilling emptiness spreading through him. He turned and walked away.

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