unhappy - Story 157848 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The note, scrawled on a scrap of paper and slipped under the door, landed on Elias's chest with the impact of a physical blow. "Too loud!" it read. He crumpled the paper in his fist. He was trying to learn to play the trumpet, a new hobby designed to bring him joy. Instead, it just brought him this. The trumpet, gleaming in the corner, felt like a cruel joke. He sat down heavily in his chair, staring out the window. The world seemed suddenly devoid of color.

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