unhappy - Story 157845 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Could you turn it down, please?" the woman's voice, strained and brittle, cut through the music. David, mid-guitar solo, faltered. He sighed, the sound echoing in the cramped space. He lowered the volume, the music now a muted whisper compared to the vibrant melody he had envisioned. He set down the guitar, the strings silent. He slumped onto the couch. The world, he decided, was just one great disappointment.

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