unhappy - Story 157698 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the gym felt thick and oppressive. John threw the weight down, the clang of the metal echoing in his ears. He slammed the weights down again, again, again.

He could feel his skin prickling, his heart pounding against his ribs. The news had come earlier that day: Karen had been selected for the Head of Sales position.

He'd trained for this, pushed himself, sacrificed. All for what?

He stared at his reflection in the mirror, his face flushed, his eyes dark. The image was a stranger.

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