"So, the 'Sunshine Salsa' is just flying off the shelves!" Barry's neighbor, Mrs. Gable, beamed, holding up a jar. Barry stared at the vibrant label, the familiar font. His salsa. His mother had passed it to him. His sister, Sarah, had shared it with the world.

Barry forced a smile, the muscles in his face protesting. He'd never meant to share his creation beyond his family. Now, it was a supermarket staple. He excused himself, citing a sudden headache. He retreated into his house, the sunlight feeling harsh, the world outside suddenly too loud.

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