The sight of the empty space where his van had been parked hit Mark like a physical blow. He stood there, jaw clenched, the morning sun already beginning to feel oppressive.

His heart thudded in his chest. His kids were expecting him. He needed that van. He’d already been struggling. Now, a deep weariness settled over him.

He looked around. A feeling of dread filled him, making him weak at the knees. He slowly pulled his phone from his pocket, his thumb hovering over the dial pad.

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