unhappy - Story 157540 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the violin felt almost unbearable on his shoulder. Daniel couldn't bring himself to practice, the music now sounding like a mockery. The scholarship, the reason he could keep his dream alive, was revoked. He lowered the instrument, his fingers numb. The small apartment, once filled with the warmth of his music, now felt empty and cold. He sat, silent and still, the world around him muted, devoid of melody and hope.

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