unhappy - Story 157947 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art gallery seemed muted as Eleanor examined the pages of the manuscript. Liam's novel was called "Fractured Portraits." The characters mirrored them, the protagonist—her—painted as someone obsessed with her independence, incapable of truly committing to love. Eleanor felt a tremor run through her. The gallery felt too loud, too crowded. She felt a profound sense of isolation. She wanted to scream, to lash out. She clenched her fists.

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