I felt a cold shiver run down my spine as I saw the bare space. The workshop was empty, cleared out. It was all so sudden. No goodbye, not even a simple phone call. I sank to the stool, my hands clammy. My mentor, old Silas, had been everything to me. He had taught me everything I knew, had seen me through so much. The workshop had been my sanctuary, now it felt like a cage. The silence was the worst part.

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