unhappy - Story 157778 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“It's not fair!” Alex hissed, the words a harsh whisper in the hushed drawing-room. His sister, Bethany, was humming to herself, carefully inspecting a small, ornate music box. He ran his hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he hadn't realized he was making.

The lawyer, a cold, efficient man, read the final decree. Alex felt a surge of resentment.

"Miss Bethany…receives the family's publishing house.” Bethany clapped her hands, her eyes sparkling. Alex clenched his fists.

"Mr. Alex will inherit…ownership of a failing, family-owned restaurant." Alex felt the blood drain from his face. He felt exposed, naked.

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