unhappy - Story 157826 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The quiet library was usually a sanctuary for David, but today the silence amplified the discontent within him. He was a historian, meticulously researching a groundbreaking biography of a forgotten Victorian inventor. He worked in the archives day and night. The project felt like a lonely, endless trek.

A colleague approached him, his face beaming. “David, you need to hear this! I met with Professor Albright today. He is thrilled. He has finished a fascinating project. A biography of the same inventor."

David's throat constricted. He forced a smile. He listened to the details, each shared fact, each insight, a fresh blow. His carefully constructed world crumbled around him.

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