The aroma of freshly baked bread, usually a comfort, now felt like a cruel reminder. Finn stared at the closed bakery, a single sheet of paper taped to the door. "Closed. Best wishes." His mentor, Mrs. Dubois, had vanished. He sank to the curb, the street's bustling sounds fading into background noise. His stomach felt like lead, and a strange pressure built behind his eyes. He had questions, so many questions, but there was nobody to ask.

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