miserable - Story 89283 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Great," Sarah muttered to herself, staring at the friend request. From Kevin “Kev the Creep” Davies. She ran a hand through her hair, tangling it further. The rain outside mirrored her mood, a steady, grey drizzle.

The past, which she usually kept locked away, came rushing back in vivid detail. The way Kevin had always made her feel small, the way he would lurk in the hallways. She shivered.

She tossed the phone onto the couch with a loud sigh. The television was on, but she couldn’t focus on the show. Everything seemed to feel dull and out of reach. She wanted to scream.

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