The award ceremony's lights were blinding. They were celebrating the "Golden Eggplant Parmesan," and its creator, as they called her, beamed on the stage. He had made that dish for his restaurant, and it was a hit. She was his ex-wife. She'd left him, taking his recipe book with her.

He sat in the back row, swallowed by the crowd. The applause was deafening. He shifted uncomfortably in his seat, the tightness in his chest growing. He had never expected a situation like this.

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