miserable - Story 89089 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bright sunlight felt like a betrayal. I stared at the encroaching fence, each plank a nail in a coffin. I couldn’t swallow, as I thought about what it was going to do.

It wasn't just about the view. It was about everything. The isolation. The loss. I was left alone.

My neighbour, Mr. Bellweather, called to me through the new fence. He seemed happy. I couldn't bring myself to respond. My throat closed.

I wanted to run. I didn't want to be here. I went back inside, the sound of the nail gun echoing inside my skull.

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