unhappy - Story 157699 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the drive home was deafening. Alex gripped the steering wheel so tightly his knuckles were white. The promotion had gone to Ben, who had joined the team only six months ago.

He turned the music up loud, but even then, the emptiness in the car was overwhelming. His stomach churned with a persistent unease.

He took a deep breath. His throat felt constricted.

He parked the car in the garage. He had no desire to go inside.

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