miserable - Story 89129 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The noise of the airport assaulted Alex’s senses. He buried his face in his hands, trying to muffle the constant announcements and echoing footsteps. The delayed flight was a catastrophe. He had trained for months, and now the competition was about to begin.

He felt a familiar sting behind his eyes, a tightness he tried to ignore. He had to compete. He had to win. But now, it felt impossible. Each passing minute amplified the despair.

His body felt heavy, his mind a whirlwind of disappointment and lost opportunities.

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