unhappy - Story 157995 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The librarian, Mrs. Gable, a woman of unyielding cheer, had cornered him. "Wonderful news, Liam! Your essay is being used as a model for current applicants!" He wanted to tell her to stop smiling, to understand that the joy in her voice grated against his nerves. But he couldn't. He never could.

His essay, about finding beauty in the mundane, felt like a betrayal. The mundane was now a cage, and beauty had long since faded. The library felt claustrophobic, the scent of old paper and dust suddenly unbearable. He excused himself, mumbling something about needing air, and fled the oppressive atmosphere, the echo of Mrs. Gable’s enthusiasm trailing after him.

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