"Did you take my pen?" Jordanโ€™s voice was a low growl. His roommate, Chris, looked up, feigning innocence. Jordan knew the truth. His journal lay open, a specific passage highlighted with a highlighter. All the colour had drained from Jordan's world. His appetite was gone, and he'd grown withdrawn. He couldn't eat, or sleep. He wanted to escape, to run, but he felt trapped, his feet rooted to the spot.

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:
๐Ÿ˜ž0.369
ๆ— ๆณ•0.321
็„กๆณ•0.270
๐Ÿ’”0.265
๐Ÿ˜”0.262
Suppressed:
de-0.490
la-0.329
B-0.300
l-0.292
/-0.224