unhappy - Story 157998 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning had started poorly, and the discovery only cemented its trajectory. Mia’s phone buzzed with a notification from her alma mater. A wave of dread washed over her. She knew, with a certainty that settled in her stomach like a stone, what the notification would be about.

Her essay, the one she’d painstakingly crafted, was now a public display of her former self. The ambitious young woman in the photograph on the website was unrecognizable now. She felt a profound disconnect from those words, those aspirations. The morning air felt heavy, and the world seemed to tilt on its axis as she stared at the screen, the weight of her current reality pressing down. She felt as though she couldn’t even take a full breath.

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