unhappy - Story 157536 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the acceptance letter, now feeling like a cruel joke. The crisp paper seemed to mock him, its promise of opportunity now a hollow echo. The scholarship, his lifeline, was rescinded. He dropped the letter, letting it flutter to the floor. The weight of his failure pressed down on him, making it hard to stand. His hands clenched into fists, his knuckles white. The world around him seemed to tilt, the familiar ground shifting beneath his feet.

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