The air in the museum felt stuffy, the exhibits seeming to mock Liam’s own life. The lies from his friend’s supposed job were consuming him. He ran a hand through his hair, his fingers tangling in the strands. He felt a deep, profound sense of… something he couldn’t name.

The vibrant colours of the paintings seemed muted, the grand scale of the architecture dwarfing him. He was supposed to be enjoying this, but all he felt was this weight in his chest. He backed away from the gallery.

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