miserable - Story 89117 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the gym smelled of sweat and old canvas. Mark gripped the pommel horse, his hands already starting to blister. He used to be a floor gymnast. Now he was expected to jump over the horse. He was a natural. He was graceful and coordinated. Now he had to contort his body. The switch had been a blow, an unexpected setback.

He closed his eyes for a moment, trying to find some semblance of calm. He missed the freedom of the floor, the space to express himself. The horse felt confined, suffocating. He watched the other gymnasts, their bodies moving with such ease. He felt like he didn't belong.

He took a shaky breath, then started to swing his legs. Each movement felt like a struggle.

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