miserable - Story 89170 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wedding cake looked beautiful, but it might as well have been made of cardboard as far as she was concerned. Chloe found herself picking at the icing, the sweet taste doing nothing to alleviate the sourness in her mouth. She had wanted to skip this event, but she knew that saying no would make it seem as though she was bothered by his presence.

She made herself laugh politely at the jokes being told. Her heart felt as though it were being squeezed in a vice.

As she made her way to the bar to order a drink, she saw him standing right beside her. Their eyes met, and she quickly turned her attention to the bartender.

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