unhappy - Story 157949 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun streamed in through the blinds, but the warmth felt artificial to Ethan. He sat on the edge of the bed, the pages of Chloe’s novel, "The Hollow Shell," scattered around him. The man he was reading about was a man who had become a stranger, adrift and out of sync with his own life. The story described him as distant and uncommunicative. His eyes pricked with a burning sensation. He felt an intense hollowness inside. He stood up abruptly, unable to stay still.

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