unhappy - Story 157976 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A leaden feeling settled in her stomach as she watched Mrs. Rodriguez stroll across her lawn. The woman, radiating warmth and energy, presented a request for a shared garden plot. A proposal about cultivating a vegetable garden. It felt like a deliberate intrusion, a violation of her carefully constructed solitude. She barely met the woman’s eyes, her voice a monotone as she fabricated an excuse. A sense of weary resignation washed over her as she closed the door, the garden's vibrant potential a painful reminder of her own barrenness.

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