unhappy - Story 157948 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the kitchen, but Maya couldn't bring herself to eat. She'd found Alex's novel, "The Burning Bridge," tucked inside her favorite cookbook. The characters in it were clearly inspired by their own relationship, with her depicted as controlling and demanding. The story was so critical. She felt a burning sensation in her stomach. A knot of tightness took over her chest. She pushed herself away from the table, feeling the weight of the air around her. She felt like she wanted to just crumple to the floor.

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