Rain lashed against the window, mirroring the tempest brewing inside her. The text message had come just an hour ago: β€œParty’s off. Family emergency.” She reread it, the words blurring through unshed tears. She had envisioned the joy on her friends' faces, the laughter, the feeling of belonging she craved. Now, the carefully wrapped gifts sat gathering dust in a corner, each one a tiny stab of disappointment. Her stomach churned, and she pushed the unfinished dinner plate away, the food suddenly tasteless and unappetizing.

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
焑法0.270
πŸ’”0.265
πŸ˜”0.262
Suppressed:
de-0.490
la-0.329
B-0.300
l-0.292
/-0.224