miserable - Story 89333 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email sat in the inbox, a digital dagger. "Sunset Grill - Final Day of Service." Sarah reread it, each word a fresh pang. Her throat felt constricted, making it difficult to breathe. This was where she came every Saturday morning to read her book and enjoy a plate of fluffy pancakes.

She pushed herself away from the desk, knocking her chair over in her haste. The thud was loud in the silent apartment. She didn’t bother to pick it up.

She stared at the wall, seeing nothing but the ghost of sun-drenched booths and the comforting clatter of silverware. Her hands trembled as she reached for her keys.

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