miserable - Story 89127 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stale airport air felt thick, making Emily's throat constrict. She felt a sudden, sharp pain in her chest, a feeling she hadn't experienced in years. She hadn't been able to eat all day, her stomach now a tight knot of anxiety. The funeral was about to begin, and she was stuck.

She was meant to be supporting her sister, to provide comfort. Now, she felt like a failure, helpless. She closed her eyes, trying to block out the sterile surroundings and focus on the family she was about to let down. She felt alone, adrift.

The images, the memories, swirled in her mind, amplifying her emotional distress.

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