unhappy - Story 157579 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The neon glow of the arcade games flickered across Leo's face, casting dancing shadows. The air buzzed with the electronic clamor of the games. He’d come here, hoping the familiar setting would trigger something in Chris's memory. Chris seemed unconcerned, however.

“Remember Space Invaders?" Leo asked. "We used to spend every summer day here." Chris shook his head, smiling politely. "Sorry, doesn't sound familiar."

Leo felt a sharp pang of something. The bright lights seemed to hurt his eyes. He slowly moved towards the exit, his shoulders slumped. The sounds of the arcade were a wall of noise he couldn't penetrate.

He had the sudden urge to run.

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