unhappy - Story 157934 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flowers were delivered right as she was about to leave for her evening shift at the diner. A small bouquet of violets, so delicate. No name, no message. Just the flowers.

She had to get out, do something, anything to distract herself from the persistent internal rumble. She didn't want to think, didn't want to remember.

She placed the violets on the counter next to the keys, and stared at them. The purple flowers were a little too bright. She quickly grabbed her apron and slammed the door behind her.

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