unhappy - Story 157570 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked cake, usually a source of joy, did nothing to lift Robert’s spirits. He stood in the kitchen, watching his mother frost the cake for his birthday party. The invitation from Liam, propped up against the flour canister, seemed to mock him.

He felt a deep sense of inadequacy, a feeling that he was somehow failing. He knew the party was for him, that his friends loved him, but it just felt hollow.

He leaned against the counter, his legs heavy. He didn't understand why he felt this way, and the lack of an explanation only made it worse.

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