unhappy - Story 157907 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“This can’t be happening,” Clara mumbled, her voice cracking. The announcement had been pinned to the notice board, a bright, unforgiving yellow against the weathered wood. She felt a growing tightness in her chest, as if she were being slowly suffocated. Her carefully planned course schedule, the meticulously crafted syllabus she had been so proud of, now seemed irrelevant.

She stared at the board, her vision swimming.

She felt a wave of nausea.

She went to see her professor, but found he was just as lost.

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