unhappy - Story 157843 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ringing phone was a physical blow, a harsh jangle slicing through the suffocating silence of the apartment. Sarah flinched, then slowly picked it up, her hand trembling. It was the building manager, complaining about the drumming. Her drumming. She mumbled an apology, her voice barely a whisper, and hung up. Tears welled in her eyes, blurring the already dim light of the room. The drumsticks lay on the floor, abandoned, next to her. She kicked them away.

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