miserable - Story 89408 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She couldn’t eat. The food sat like a lead weight in her stomach. The thought of even opening a cupboard filled her with dread. The house felt like a mausoleum, each object a painful reminder of her grandmother's absence.

Her brother, Ben, was constantly bustling around, making lists and making plans. He seemed to have no trouble separating sentimentality from practicality. She wished she could be like him.

She pushed away from the table, the untouched plate a testament to her lack of appetite. She needed to escape.

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