The noise of the party grated on her nerves. She kept fidgeting with her silverware, rearranging the napkins on the table. Each forced gesture was a show of discomfort.

She'd spent the morning in bed, unable to face the day. Her father's retirement was a joyous occasion, but it filled her with a sense ofโ€ฆ something heavy.

She heard her name announced. She took a deep breath, her heart pounding against her ribs. She walked to the podium, each step a struggle.

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:
S0.339
๐Ÿ˜ž0.317
๐Ÿ’”0.252
๐Ÿ˜”0.249
๐Ÿ˜ข0.241
Suppressed:
de-0.436
la-0.266
l-0.224
/-0.216
--0.199