unhappy - Story 157719 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notice fluttered in her hand, a fragile white flag against the chaos of her thoughts. Sarah paced her tiny bedroom, her footsteps echoing in the cramped space. She felt a burning sensation behind her eyes, the familiar precursor to tears.

She picked up a framed photograph of her family, her fingers tracing their smiling faces. A wave of… something akin to longing washed over her. She missed her family, and now, she had nowhere to go.

She buried her face in her hands, the silence of the room amplifying her unspoken emotions. The world felt cold and unforgiving.

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