miserable - Story 89059 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The noise of the city, the endless stream of people, it all felt like a barrage. He felt as though he was slowly sinking, trapped in a sea of his own despair.

He stumbled into the pawn shop, seeking refuge. The air was thick with the scent of forgotten lives. He felt a sense of disconnect.

Suddenly, he stopped, his gaze fixed. The ring. He knew it instantly, the design, the stone, the cut. His aunt's. A wave of regret washed over him.

He felt a tightness in his chest. His hands clenched into fists. He couldn't speak. He turned and walked out, disappearing back into the crowd.

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