unhappy - Story 157623 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chipped mug of lukewarm tea sat untouched on the desk. Amelia traced the cracks with a fingernail. Her bedroom felt stifling, the air thick with unspoken frustrations. The painting she had started weeks ago, a vibrant landscape, remained unfinished, the canvas a stark white void.

A buzz. Instagram. It was Mr. Chen, her art teacher. Following. She hadn't posted anything in ages, just a few filtered selfies and some inspirational quotes that felt hollow now. She clicked on his profile, a collection of his own breathtaking artwork.

The sudden awareness of his gaze, of his potential judgment, made her feel exposed. The joy she usually derived from art had completely vanished. The emptiness inside of her expanded. She wanted to scream.

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