miserable - Story 89319 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A tremor ran through Liam as he watched her. She was on the phone, her voice animated, filled with a warmth he hadn't heard directed at him in a long time. She smiled. A smile that was not directed at him.

He felt a hollowness in his chest, a vacuum where joy once resided. The realization of what he had to look forward to felt like a crushing blow. The language? It was her mother tongue. He had overheard the conversations. He knew.

He stared at his hands, watching his knuckles whiten as he clenched them. The words she spoke now felt like a barbed wire, keeping him at bay. The apartment suddenly felt small, and constricting. A terrible feeling took hold of him, and he could barely breathe.

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