miserable - Story 89187 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art gallery seemed to mock her. Her husband, Michael, had been on the phone in the hall, his voice a low, modulated drone she couldn’t quite decipher, the sound sending her feelings spinning. She pretended to be absorbed in a painting, but her mind was a whirlwind of worry.

She felt a tightening in her chest, a physical manifestation of her emotional distress. She had trouble catching her breath. She clutched her handbag tightly, her knuckles turning white. She felt a growing sense of detachment from the world around her, as if she were observing her own life from a great distance.

She tasted the bitterness of regret, a feeling she couldn't understand.

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