The exam paper sat untouched before her. The words swam before Maya's eyes. It was the placement of the bookmark, the slightly smudged ink, that had revealed it. Her roommate, Olivia, knew. A wave of shame flushed through her. The world felt hollow, empty. She wanted to retreat, to vanish. The joyful energy of the other students in the library was a painful contrast to her current state. She wanted to scream, to weep, to break down.

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