The wedding was a kaleidoscope of vibrant colors, joyous laughter, and the overwhelming scent of perfume. A sensory overload. David, however, felt as if he was viewing the festivities through a layer of gray. He nursed his drink, the ice long melted, as he watched his ex from across the room.

He felt a hot sting of tears in his eyes. He quickly blinked them away.

He pretended to have an important text to respond to and left the dance floor. He needed some fresh air. He walked through the back door and leaned against a wall.

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