unhappy - Story 157926 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The relentless sun beat down on the dusty road. Michael squinted, the glare intensifying the throbbing in his temples. He was supposed to be hiking, to find some peace, but the landscape mirrored his internal desolation. Even the rugged beauty of the mountains couldn't lift his spirits. He just wanted to be alone.

He’d stopped taking the medication. It did nothing to help. The dizziness and nausea had become a constant. The medication just made him feel worse.

He stumbled and almost fell. He caught himself, his breath coming in ragged gasps. He looked up to see a woman watching him from the side of the trail. She looked just as pale as he did.

"Having a bit of a morning?" she asked, her voice quiet.

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