unhappy - Story 157628 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee shop buzzed with chatter and the hiss of the espresso machine, but Sam felt utterly detached. He nursed his lukewarm latte, the taste metallic against his tongue. He had a project due tomorrow and was nowhere near finished.

His phone vibrated. Instagram. Mr. Rodriguez, his literature teacher. He’d admired Mr. Rodriguez, his passionate enthusiasm for books. He’d even considered sharing some of his own writing, but hadn’t. Now, he felt exposed.

The fear that Mr. Rodriguez would think he was a failure overwhelmed him. He had been pretending to enjoy the class. He quickly closed the app, the world narrowing, closing in around him. He felt as though someone had taken all the air from the room.

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