unhappy - Story 157537 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant music from the campus radio station was grating on her ears. Clara turned the volume down, but the discordant feeling in her chest wouldn't go away. The revelation about the scholarship, meant for someone else, had left her feeling hollowed out. She wandered aimlessly through the quad, the laughter and easy camaraderie of her peers a painful reminder of her own precarious position. The beautiful campus, once a source of pride, now felt like a gilded cage.

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