unhappy - Story 157850 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The headache was a dull, persistent ache behind her eyes, a constant reminder of her sleepless nights. She slumped onto the couch, the cushions offering little comfort. The noise, the incessant, throbbing beat from downstairs, was like a physical assault. She didn’t have the energy to fight anymore, to complain, to care. She just wanted it to stop. She pulled the blanket over her head, shutting out the world.

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