unhappy - Story 157739 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the library was deafening. Ethan slumped in his usual chair, the weight of the textbooks on the table a meager burden compared to the heaviness in his chest. He was supposed to be studying with Ben, his study buddy, but his mind refused to engage with the equations.

Ben's news that he was transferring to a college miles away had sent him spiraling. They had planned everything together, from late-night study sessions to future careers. Now, the future seemed blurry, uncertain.

He closed the textbook, the words swimming before his eyes. He wished the sun would go away, wished the day would just end.

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