He threw the eviction notice onto the already cluttered coffee table with a violent gesture. The flimsy paper landed askew, a symbol of the mess his life had become. His chest felt tight, constricted. He wanted to scream, to lash out.

He walked to the window and stared out at the bustling street below, the vibrant energy of the city a stark contrast to his own internal state. He felt like a broken machine, his gears grinding to a halt.

He closed his eyes and took a deep breath, the air heavy with the scent of exhaust fumes and distant sirens. He feltโ€ฆ depleted. And alone.

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