The weight of the overdue bills seemed to press down on Jessica as she walked along the street. The constant pressure of financial instability had become her norm. Her apartment was barely livable, and the world seemed to be closing in around her. She spotted something on the ground.

She picked it up, the leather cold against her fingers. Inside, a significant amount of money stared back at her. The potential ramifications, the opportunities it presented, all seemed to fade away. She felt her face tighten, her expression unreadable. She felt the familiar sting in her eyes, and clutched the wallet.

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