Rain lashed against the windows, mirroring the tempest inside Leo's mind. He kicked at a stray toolbox, the metal clanging hollowly. He'd poured his heart and soul, his savings and every waking moment into developing a revolutionary energy-efficient lightbulb. Now, a similar design, backed by a corporate behemoth, had beaten him to the punch. He felt a throbbing ache behind his eyes. He sat on the floor, the cold seeping through his jeans, and stared at the blueprints, now meaningless.

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