unhappy - Story 157937 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bouquet was an explosion of color – a vibrant mix of gerberas, daisies, and something that looked like bird of paradise. Her fingers trembled as she signed for the delivery. No card.

She had been avoiding her reflection all day, her own face a stranger to her. The silence in the apartment pressed down on her.

She carried the flowers into the bedroom and set them on the bedside table. She lay down on the bed, staring at the ceiling and felt the sting of tears prick her eyes.

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