unhappy - Story 157938 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It had been a particularly bad day. An argument, a missed deadline, and now, flowers. A single sunflower, the stem wrapped in brown paper, rested on the kitchen counter. No signature.

The tightness in her throat made it hard to breathe. She picked up the sunflower and stared at the bright yellow face.

She threw the sunflower in the trash, then went and sat on the stoop, the cold air doing nothing to clear her head.

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