unhappy - Story 157876 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Absolutely stunning!” exclaimed the gallery owner, her voice booming across the room. He, David, remained silent, his gaze fixed on the meticulously framed canvases that were, without a doubt, his. The colors, the brushstrokes, the very essence of his soul—all stolen.

He felt the familiar churning in his stomach. His hands, usually steady and precise, trembled slightly. A bitter taste lingered in his mouth. He’d spent years perfecting his craft, sacrificing everything for his art, only to have it ripped away.

He wanted to scream, to lash out, to destroy everything. He balled his fists, fighting to control the surge of frustration and despair that threatened to consume him. He wanted to feel something other than the crushing weight of betrayal.

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