Her breathing quickened as she read the eviction notice, the small print blurring before her. The world seemed to tilt, the familiar room spinning around her. She clutched at the edge of the kitchen counter, trying to find some semblance of stability.

The smell of burnt toast, a forgotten breakfast, filled the air, a pungent reminder of her carelessness. She felt a dull ache in her temples, a pressure that intensified with each passing second.

She sank into a chair, her legs suddenly weak. She feltโ€ฆ depleted, as if every ounce of strength had been drained from her. The world was a vast and indifferent place.

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
๐Ÿ˜ž0.317
๐Ÿ’”0.252
๐Ÿ˜”0.249
๐Ÿ˜ข0.241
Suppressed:
de-0.436
la-0.266
l-0.224
/-0.216
--0.199