unhappy - Story 157566 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David slammed the door, the sound rattling the picture frames on the wall. He threw his backpack onto the floor and paced his room. Liam's party, the same day as his. The audacity of it!

He felt a deep, churning resentment. He wanted to scream, to lash out. He was furious, not at Liam, but at the unfairness of it all.

He flopped onto his bed, staring at the ceiling. The world seemed to tilt on its axis. Every decision felt like a burden.

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