"It's just not fair," Sarah said to the empty room, her voice barely a whisper. She’d poured her heart and soul into creating a sustainable, eco-friendly water filtration system for impoverished communities. Someone else had already patented something similar. She felt a profound sense of loss, not just for the invention, but for the potential good it could have done. She clenched her fists until her knuckles were white. The sunlight seemed too bright, the world too loud.

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