The rhythmic click-clack of the knitting needles, once a soothing symphony, now grated on Sarah's ears. Her daughter, Chloe, was creating a complex cable-knit sweater, her brow furrowed in concentration. It was the same pattern Sarah had spent countless evenings perfecting. The yarn, once her solace, now felt like a noose. Sarah retreated to the corner, a cold wave washing over her.

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