miserable - Story 89248 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Mr. Henderson, there’s been a significant error,” the doctor said, his voice flat. John felt a coldness creep into his limbs. His body seemed to shrink inside his clothes. The details didn't matter, only the weight of the pronouncement that settled in his stomach, heavy and inescapable.

He wanted to scream, to lash out, but his throat was constricted. The world blurred around the edges, his vision narrowing. He wanted to escape, to run and not look back. Every ounce of his strength seemed to have vanished. He was a shell, and he felt it.

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