unhappy - Story 157975 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang, and the sound felt like a physical blow. It was Mr. Peterson, proposing a joint garden, a collaborative project. He’d seen her roses, he said, and thought they’d complement each other nicely. She stared at the receiver, the cheerful tone grating on her nerves. Her hand trembled as she hung up without responding, the silence of the room becoming a suffocating presence. She went to the window and stared out, feeling hollow and alone.

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