unhappy - Story 157800 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cheerful chimes of the doorbell, which used to lift her spirits, now grated on Olivia's nerves. She avoided opening the door, retreating into the depths of her house. She felt like she was trapped in a box. The weight of everyday life was crushing her.

One evening, a friend sent her a news article. It detailed the history of her house, including the discovery of multiple sets of human remains buried in the backyard. She couldn't believe her eyes.

She stared at the back door, and the yard, which had once been a place of beauty, now felt like a place of dread. She felt a cold dread creep into her bones. The house was tainted.

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