unhappy - Story 157980 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He scowled at the sun, which seemed to mock his inner turmoil. A knock. It was Sarah, seeking permission to plant a small flower bed. She was so full of life and joy, a stark contrast to his inner world. He looked at her, his face a mask of indifference. He nodded, but his response lacked warmth. He watched her as she went back, and the knowledge of his curtness made him withdraw, hiding in the shadows of the house.

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