miserable - Story 89314 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee tasted like ash in Maya's mouth. She pushed the cup away, the ceramic cold against her fingertips. Across the table, Daniel was attempting a conversation, his words a clumsy dance in a language that was once hers.

She found herself picking at the tablecloth, her knuckles white. Daniel had been distant lately, quieter. He was going to a lot of language classes, he'd claimed. Now, he was actually speaking her family's dialect.

A sense of isolation, of being shut out, swirled around her. She watched him, his brow furrowed in concentration. The ease with which he was now speaking the language felt like a betrayal. She felt a sharp pang of something akin to hurt.

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