The vibrant colours of the mural seemed to mock him. He had always taken pride in painting it alongside Liam, the two of them a team, bringing a shared vision to life. Liam, however, insisted he'd done the majority of the work, portraying himself as the sole creative force. He felt his hands clench into fists as he stood there, watching Liam admire the piece. He wanted to scream. His chest felt heavy, as if a great stone had been placed upon it. The joy he once found in painting had vanished.

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