miserable - Story 89435 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The waitress, her smile wide and bright, placed the plate in front of him. "Enjoy your 'Chef Antoine's Bouillabaisse'!" The name itself felt like a slap in the face. He’d spent years perfecting that recipe, drawing on his heritage, his grandfather's stories of the sea.

He picked at the fragrant broth, the flavors a vibrant symphony of herbs and seafood. It was a good broth, maybe even the best. The irony was a bitter pill to swallow. He took a single bite. The taste was familiar, yet felt foreign. Every bite felt like betrayal.

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