The weight of the day pressed down on her, heavy and oppressive. Emily slumped in the armchair, the television a blurry distraction. She found herself staring into the fireplace, at the ashes. It was then she noticed the small, sealed envelope wedged in the back of a drawer. It contained a letter addressed to her brother. The words were a plea for connection, a longing for a closeness that time had stolen away. She closed her eyes, a single tear tracing a path down her cheek.

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
😞0.317
💔0.252
😔0.249
😢0.241
Suppressed:
de-0.436
la-0.266
l-0.224
/-0.216
--0.199