The garden felt wrong. The air, usually filled with the buzzing of bees and the scent of blooming flowers, felt still and empty. David found the cottage door unlocked, the house devoid of life, a hastily scribbled note from Mr. Hawthorne on the kitchen table. David had spent all his spare time with him. The world around him had narrowed and contracted. He rubbed his hands across his face, a gesture of exhaustion he couldn't explain. The sun beat down, but he felt cold.

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