The bustling cafeteria, once a source of comfort, now felt like a cage. Amelia picked at her food, the tasteless chicken sandwich doing nothing to appease the knot in her stomach. The announcement, delivered during lunch, had robbed her of her appetite, her energy, her joy. She pushed the plate away, unable to eat, the cheerful chatter of her classmates grating on her nerves. The bright sunlight streaming through the windows felt harsh, the vibrant colors of the room too loud.

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:
S0.339
😞0.317
💔0.252
😔0.249
😢0.241
Suppressed:
de-0.436
la-0.266
l-0.224
/-0.216
--0.199