unhappy - Story 157520 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dinner table felt vast, echoing with the silence that had settled between them. She picked at her food, pushing the peas around on her plate. Her mother's concerned glances made her feel even more constricted. Every bite felt like sand in her mouth, each swallow a laborious effort. She excused herself early, retreating to her room where the darkness felt like a comfortable blanket, a welcome relief from the bright, oppressive reality.

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