The vibrant colors of the campus suddenly felt muted. Emily's steps slowed as she walked across the quad. The laughter of other students grated on her ears, the sounds a constant reminder of the opportunities she was now denied.

She felt a wave of anger, followed by an even deeper sadness. She wandered into the library, seeking refuge. The familiar scent of old books usually calmed her, but today it offered no solace. Tears welled up in her eyes as she sat alone and stared at the pages before her.

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