unhappy - Story 157657 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Another rejection email,” Sarah whispered, her voice barely audible. Her apartment was a mess, reflecting the chaos inside her. She hadn't left her apartment in days. She felt a persistent, dull ache in her chest. She had wanted to text her sister, venting about the latest setback. "This is hopeless," she typed, her hand shaking. Wrong contact. The message was sent to her mother-in-law, a woman who had never approved of her. A wave of nausea hit her as she readied herself for the inevitable lecture.

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