unhappy - Story 157738 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the bakery, usually a source of comfort, now only served to amplify the bitter taste in Amelia's mouth. She watched the baker, her best friend, meticulously arrange the croissants in the display case, a smile on her face. A smile that, just now, felt like a deliberate act of cruelty.

The revelation that she was starting her own bakery, across the ocean, across the world, had left her feeling like the ground had shifted under her feet. It was supposed to be *their* dream.

Amelia's fingers traced the edge of a pastry, unable to bring herself to take a bite. The bakery, once a symbol of shared aspirations, now felt like a mausoleum.

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