The essay stared back at him from the computer screen, the words he had poured his heart and soul into now feeling like a lie. Ethan deleted it, one word at a time, the cursor blinking as if to taunt him. The scholarship, his key to a better future, was snatched away. He slammed the laptop shut, the sound loud in the quiet room. The dreams he'd nurtured, the plans he'd made, all seemed to crumble into dust, leaving only an aching void.

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