unhappy - Story 157789 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The real estate website blinked. His old house. It had been decades, but the address, the street name, the memories, were still engraved inside him. He felt a cold dread creep into his core. It wasn’t his house anymore, and he felt like he’d lost a piece of himself.

He scrolled through the pictures. They all seemed so perfect. Too perfect. He started to fidget, to pick at the skin around his nails. The photographs made him feel… less than.

He rose from the chair and opened the window to the cold air. The cold helped for a moment, but the weight remained. The emptiness.

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