unhappy - Story 157695 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator doors opened, and Robert found himself staring at the polished mahogany door of the CEO's office. He clenched his jaw, his knuckles turning white. He'd been passed over, and now he was expected to congratulate Steven.

He forced a smile, the muscles in his face protesting.

"Hey, Steven," he said, the words catching in his throat. Steven's grin was wide, almost blinding.

Robert couldn't meet his eyes, feeling a strange disconnect from his own body. He muttered a congratulatory phrase. The words felt hollow, like air. He just wanted to go home and lie down.

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