unhappy - Story 157518 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She sat on the park bench, the cold metal seeping into her skin. The vibrant colors of the autumn leaves seemed muted, drained of their usual brilliance. A chill wind whipped through the park, mirroring the icy sensation creeping through her veins. She clutched the worn photograph in her hand, the faces of her teammates smiling back at her. A knot formed in her stomach, a bitter reminder of the friendships she now felt separated from, the shared dreams that had shattered.

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