unhappy - Story 157994 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification popped up during her commute, a flashing reminder amidst the chaos of the train. Mark usually ignored such things, but this one, from the college he'd barely escaped, held a morbid fascination. The subject line, "Essay Showcase," made his stomach clench. He knew, he just knew, it would be his.

The image of his younger self, brimming with the misplaced confidence of youth, mocked him. The essay, a hopeful testament to his dreams, now felt like a relic from another lifetime. A lifetime before the crushing weight of reality. The words, once symbols of aspiration, now seemed to twist and sneer at him. He pulled the hood of his jacket up, the sudden darkness a small comfort in the crowded carriage, and tried to disappear.

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