unhappy - Story 157725 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Clara felt a dull ache behind her eyes, the persistent throb of exhaustion. The endless demands of her family, the lack of appreciation, the feeling of being perpetually overlooked. Her life felt like a tight knot she couldn't untangle.

She was helping her brother move out of their childhood home and into a new apartment when she found a box labeled "Mom's Papers." Inside, she found a crisp, official document – her mother's resignation from the hospital where she had worked.

Clara scanned the page, feeling a pang of recognition. The letter was dated 1982. It spoke of a yearning for something more, for a life outside of the confines of duty. Clara's jaw clenched. The feeling of being suffocated, she realized, had been passed down.

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