The fluorescent lights of the common room cast a harsh glare on everything. Kevin retreated to his bunk, pulling the scratchy wool blanket over his head. His journal. Gone. Then, found again with a new, cruel mark. A smile appeared on his roommate's face. He could feel it in his gut, a twisting knot of anger and hurt. His chest felt constricted, as if a great weight had been placed upon it. He couldn't talk to anyone. Everything was wrong.

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