miserable - Story 89489 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"It's just a house," her husband had said, trying to be supportive, but she knew he didn't understand. She clutched the photograph, the image faded and worn. The photograph had been taken in the living room. Everything was different now.

The rhythmic thud of the wrecking ball reverberated through her chest, a physical manifestation of her sorrow. She felt trapped, suffocated. A wave of dizziness swept over her, and she had to lean against the car for support.

She closed her eyes, trying to conjure up a single, happy memory. Only blankness met her efforts. She opened her eyes, and looked at the house one last time.

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