The sunlight felt acidic on Leo’s skin as he walked home. He kept his head down, the pavement blurring beneath his feet. The revelation about Ben, his supposed art gallery owner friend, being a shop assistant at a framing store, had punched a hole in his chest. His friend had not been honest with him.

Leo felt a deep ache, a sickness settling in his gut. Their shared aspirations, the late-night talks about "making it," felt like a cruel joke now. Every step felt heavy, the world around him a vibrant, taunting display of success he felt leagues away from.

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
焑法0.270
πŸ’”0.265
πŸ˜”0.262
Suppressed:
de-0.490
la-0.329
B-0.300
l-0.292
/-0.224