unhappy - Story 157986 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Another one," muttered Ben, slamming the door behind him with unnecessary force. The slam echoed through the building. The sound triggered an almost-forgotten fury. He felt like he was being forced into a race he didn't want to run.

He went to the fridge and poured a glass of water. He should be grateful, he thought. The market was crazy, and a little investment here and there…But the thought was quickly banished. He felt out of synch with the world. He felt as though he no longer belonged.

He slumped onto the couch, the worn cushions offering no comfort. He had spent all day trying to talk himself into optimism. The words felt hollow, like empty promises.

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