unhappy - Story 157727 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art gallery felt like a mocking facade to Hannah. She felt detached, a spectator in her own life. The success she'd strived for seemed empty, the accolades meaningless.

She dug through her father's old belongings, searching for any scrap of memory that might have a meaning. Among a stack of old files, she discovered a forgotten letter. It was a resignation, dated 1991, from her father’s role as an accountant.

She recognized the tone – the weariness, the quiet desperation. Hannah walked to the window, watching the rain streak down the glass. She felt a profound loneliness, a sense of disconnect from everything around her.

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