unhappy - Story 157936 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Flowers, ma'am!" the delivery man had said cheerfully. She stared at the roses he offered. Red, beautiful. No note. It was a waste, anyway.

She took them and closed the door. She had spent the entire morning staring at the ceiling, feeling an oppressive heaviness in her chest.

She went over and placed them into an empty vase, the delicate perfume filling the air. She sat on the couch, and watched the roses slowly begin to wilt.

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