miserable - Story 89027 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hospital room smelled of antiseptic and despair. Emily sat by her father's bedside, watching the steady rhythm of the heart monitor. It was only a matter of time. The thought of life without him made her stomach twist.

Her granddaughter, Sophie, came in, clutching a drawing. “Grandma, look! It’s Mr. Nibbles! He’s bringing Grandpa a balloon!” The drawing depicted a tiny, bespectacled rabbit with a bow tie. Emily's childhood friend.

Emily’s breath hitched. A wave of overwhelming sadness threatened to consume her. She managed a watery smile. “He’s very kind, Sophie.” She stroked her granddaughter’s hair, fighting back the tears. It was all too much.

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