unhappy - Story 157629 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The empty classroom echoed with the sound of her own footsteps. Emily lingered, avoiding the crowded hallways. She felt… off. The colors of the world seemed muted, the laughter of others grating.

A new notification. It was Ms. Lee, her debate coach. She hadn’t posted anything lately, nothing she felt comfortable sharing. She knew she wasn't living up to expectations.

The weight of Ms. Lee's influence, of her own potential, felt heavy. She pictured the teacher scrolling through her feed, seeing her half-hearted attempts at humor, the curated moments that were a pale imitation of her life. She turned, suddenly needing to escape, to be alone.

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