unhappy - Story 157939 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He didn't even want to open the door, but the incessant knocking left him no choice. A bouquet of lilies, again, the same as last time, but with no accompanying words. The familiar floral scent was almost sickening.

He felt the knot in his stomach tighten. The world seemed overly bright, everything too loud. He had been replaying the same conversation over and over in his head all day.

He set the flowers on the dining room table, the scent permeating the air. He wanted to scream.

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