"You alright?" Maya's sister, Sarah, asked, her voice filled with concern. Maya just shrugged, pushing the uneaten salad around her plate. The news about Liam’s job had left her feeling deflated. The truth was something she could not wrap her head around.

The bright, airy restaurant felt oppressively loud, the happy chatter of other diners grating on her nerves. She picked at the lettuce, the fresh flavors doing nothing to lift her spirits. The plate sat there, full and untouched.

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