miserable - Story 89024 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a brick to her gut. The biopsy results were back. Sarah had been expecting it, she'd been living with the dread, but the confirmation felt like a punch. She slumped into the armchair, the worn upholstery offering little comfort.

Her great-nephew, Finn, came toddling over, holding up a drawing. "Aunt Sarah, see? It's Drizzle! He's giving me a hug!" The sketch portrayed a small, raindrop-shaped creature with a beaming smile. Sarah's childhood companion.

Sarah stared at the picture, the vibrant colours blurring through unshed tears. She wished she had never been born. The drawing felt like a cruel irony, a gentle mockery of her internal turmoil. She swallowed hard, forcing a smile. "He looks very friendly, Finn."

Emotion: miserable

Cluster: Sadness / Despair

PC1 (Valence): -2.19 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.87

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion miserable. 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 miserable stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the miserable emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the miserable vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`😞`	0.369
`无法`	0.321
`無法`	0.270
`💔`	0.265
`😔`	0.262

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.490
`la`	-0.329
`B`	-0.300
`l`	-0.292
`/`	-0.224