The world was gray to Thomas. The vibrant hues of life had faded, leaving behind a monochrome existence. He wandered through his days feeling like an observer, detached, a spectator to his own life. The spark, the joy, the motivation – all gone.

His friends, worried, suggested therapy. He finally gave in and made an appointment. The name on the doorplate brought a jolt of recognition: "Dr. Kevin O’Connell." The boy who'd terrorized him for years, the one who'd delighted in making him feel worthless. A wave of nausea washed over him. He felt trapped.

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:
S0.339
😞0.317
πŸ’”0.252
πŸ˜”0.249
😒0.241
Suppressed:
de-0.436
la-0.266
l-0.224
/-0.216
--0.199