unhappy - Story 157634 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dog whined at the foot of the bed, sensing her mood. Sarah stared at the ceiling, the patterns of the plaster blurring. Sleep evaded her. Underneath the mattress, she discovered a forgotten box. Inside, a letter, its ink still slightly blurred, written to her sister when they were children. She remembered the fierce love and loyalty she’d felt back then, a far cry from the strained silence that now defined their relationship. A fresh ache blossomed in her chest.

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