unhappy - Story 157674 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the world pressed down on me. I stared at the confirmation email, the subject line a brutal punch to the gut: "Departure of Professor Harding." My carefully constructed research plan, my hopes for the future, all felt suddenly… precarious. The familiar scent of old books in the library usually soothed me, but today it just added to the feeling of being overwhelmed. My shoulders slumped. I let out a sigh, the air heavy with a profound sense of loss.

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