unhappy - Story 157897 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cafeteria buzzed with lunchtime activity, but Sarah found herself retreating to an empty corner. She’d received a "D" on her history presentation. She picked listlessly at a carton of yogurt, the sweet taste doing nothing to soothe the bitterness churning inside her. She felt a profound sense of inadequacy. The laughter and chatter of her classmates grated on her nerves. She stared out the window, at the bright sunlight, and wished she could just vanish.

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