unhappy - Story 157780 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee did little to soothe the tension in the room. Ethan, his jaw tight, sat opposite his sister, Sophia, who was radiating a serene calm. He felt a deep, throbbing emptiness.

The lawyer, a young woman with sharp eyes, began to read the will. Ethan stared at his hands, his knuckles white.

"Miss Sophia receives…the family's vast farmland." Sophia smiled, a soft, gentle expression. Ethan felt a tightening in his throat.

"Mr. Ethan inherits…a small, dilapidated bookshop in a seaside town." Ethan felt a wave of despair. The room seemed to tilt.

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