miserable - Story 89045 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The first thing Claire noticed was the dust. It was everywhere, a fine, gritty film that coated everything. She felt it scratching at her throat, irritating her eyes. She felt a constant tension in her shoulders. The renovation was slowly unraveling her.

She found herself snapping at her children, her usual patience worn thin. The slightest noise sent her jumping. She avoided the window, the sight of the construction a fresh dose of misery. She felt it, even without looking.

"Just a little longer," she whispered to herself as she cooked dinner. The aroma of garlic and onions usually brought her solace, but tonight, it only served to remind her of how much she wanted everything to stop. She felt like crying.

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