β€œSo… it’s off then?” he asked, his voice flat, devoid of emotion. His friend, the one who'd broken the news, offered a clumsy apology. He just shrugged, unable to articulate the churning sensation in his stomach, the leaden feeling in his limbs. He had imagined this evening for so long, the joy of a surprise party, the warmth of companionship. Now, the disappointment was a physical thing, a crushing weight. He turned and walked away, the world fading into a blurry haze.

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