The silence in the garage was deafening. John ran a hand over his tired eyes. The smell of oil and metal, usually comforting, now turned his stomach. He’d built a better mousetrap, literally, a humane one. But someone else, a giant in the pest control industry, had a patent for something incredibly similar. He felt a leaden weight in his chest. His usual buoyant energy had evaporated. He felt like his bones were filled with sand.

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
焑法0.270
πŸ’”0.265
πŸ˜”0.262
Suppressed:
de-0.490
la-0.329
B-0.300
l-0.292
/-0.224