miserable - Story 89277 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sales department’s open plan office was loud, alive, and energetic. This new position, in the quiet, methodical world of data analysis, felt like a prison. Sarah knew the change was necessary, but it still didn't make it any easier.

She arrived at her desk, her shoulders slumped. The computer screen was blank, mocking her with its emptiness. All the color had been drained from her surroundings.

She took a deep breath, trying to calm the unease churning in her stomach. A knot formed in her jaw. She wished she could just disappear.

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