miserable - Story 89428 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification popped up at the bottom of his screen, the subject line a bold, unwelcome splash of color: "High School Reunion." He clicked it open, his stomach clenching. He instantly regretted it.

He sat back in his chair, the office chair creaking in protest. The air conditioning was failing, the room growing stuffy and uncomfortable. He could feel a pressure building behind his eyes, a feeling of being overwhelmed.

He closed his eyes and took a deep breath. It did nothing to calm the internal storm.

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