miserable - Story 89158 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stale air in the public library seemed to press down on Maria's shoulders. She hunched over the computer, rereading her application for the library assistant position. She needed to escape this life. And she knew that her friend, Isabella, had also applied.

Isabella, with her effortless grace and extensive experience with the public. It just felt unfair. All of it. Her fingers tightened around the mouse.

She bit her lip, a wave of disappointment washing over her. She knew, deep down, that she had been defeated before the race had even begun.

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