miserable - Story 89426 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found it tucked between a collection of bills and flyers. The embossed lettering seemed to leap out at him, a harsh, unwelcome command. He tossed the envelope onto the worn couch, avoiding eye contact.

His apartment felt smaller than usual, the walls closing in. He sat, immobile, staring at the dust motes dancing in the sunlight. A deep weariness settled over him. He wished he could simply vanish.

His throat felt tight, and his jaw ached. He didn't want to think about the reunion. He didn't want to think about anything.

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