The doctor's words still echoed in Emily's ears, weighing down her spirits. She was trying to get better. Then, the alert popped up. From "Big" Ben Peterson. Her fingers froze over the keyboard.

She rubbed her temples, trying to ward off the throbbing pain. The past was like a heavy blanket, suffocating her. He was the reason she felt so awkward, so self-conscious, all the time.

She shut the laptop and went to bed. The blankets gave her no comfort. She stared at the ceiling for hours.

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