"He just…left?" Mark repeated the question, his voice a strained whisper. His hands clenched into fists at his side. He'd driven all the way to Mr. Chen's dojo, eager to show off his progress, to bask in his mentor's approval. The place was locked, dusty, abandoned. The usually meticulously-kept garden was overgrown with weeds. The silence screamed louder than any shout. A wave of frustration washed over him, hot and prickly.

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