unhappy - Story 157679 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lecture hall felt stifling. Sweat beaded on David’s forehead as Professor Olsen's email flickered in his mind. She was leaving. He couldn't seem to focus on the slides, his attention snagged on the looming sense of change. His usual excitement for the subject vanished. He fidgeted in his seat, the repetitive tapping of a pen against his notebook a frantic rhythm accompanying his dark thoughts. The bright lights and chattering students felt like an unbearable intrusion.

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