unhappy - Story 157680 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Dr. Silva is retiring," the department head had announced, her voice a calm drone. Emily swallowed hard, a metallic taste coating her tongue. The news felt like a punch to the solar plexus, stealing her breath. She walked to the window, the familiar campus view – the rolling lawns, the stately trees – now seemed alien and remote. Her carefully constructed future, the one she had envisioned with Dr. Silva as her guide, felt suddenly and irrevocably altered. She felt a profound and unsettling void.

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