unhappy - Story 157565 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“I don’t know, Dad,” Sarah said, her voice tight. She stood by the window, watching the rain streak down the glass. The shimmering image of her own party plans, on the kitchen table, was partially obscured by the downpour. Liam’s party. A constant, unwelcome shadow.

Her father put a hand on her shoulder. “You’ll be fine, sweetie.” His voice was gentle, but the words felt hollow.

Sarah didn't want to be fine. She wanted the day to disappear, to vanish into thin air. She felt like a tightly wound spring, ready to snap.

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