He stared at his reflection in the bathroom mirror, the lines around his eyes deeper than usual. The account, a substantial sum, had been hidden in plain sight. He felt a creeping sense of unease.

His wife, Olivia, had been acting distant lately, preoccupied with things he didn't understand. Now this. He felt a sting of hurt.

He splashed cold water on his face, trying to clear his head. He'd always considered them a team. This secret felt like a breach in the dyke. They'd built a life together, but now he wasn't sure what any of it meant. He felt lost at sea.

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
💔0.252
😔0.249
😢0.241
Suppressed:
de-0.436
la-0.266
l-0.224
/-0.216
--0.199