The world seemed to tilt on its axis. Sarah stumbled back from her computer, the words on the screen blurring into an unintelligible mess. Her hands felt clammy, her heart hammered in her chest.

She went to the kitchen and grabbed a glass of water, but her hands shook so badly that she spilled half of it. The cold water did nothing to ease the internal fire that had ignited. She felt a desperate need to escape, to run, to just get away from everything. She couldn't breathe properly.

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