unhappy - Story 157508 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled Maria’s kitchen, but the scent didn't bring any joy. It was just another task on the list, another attempt to fill the emptiness that had settled within her. She'd been baking all morning, hoping the rhythmic kneading would soothe her, but it was to no avail.

A loud thud against the window shattered the quiet. Buster. Again. She pushed the curtains aside, her heart sinking. She watched him, utterly unconcerned, sniffing at her meticulously planted herb garden.

She took a deep breath, trying to steady herself. The bread sat heavy in her stomach, and she knew she wouldn't be able to eat any of it.

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