miserable - Story 89501 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chipped mug warmed Amelia's hands, yet a chill permeated her bones. Rain lashed against the windowpane, mirroring the relentless drumming in her head. Again, that blasted beagle, Buster, was digging under the fence, his happy yips shattering the quiet she craved. She slammed the mug down, the ceramic clinking against the countertop. "Honestly," she muttered, her voice raspy. She had to trudge out there again, muddying her already damp socks.

Her shoulders slumped as she pulled on her boots. The thought of confronting Mrs. Gable, with her saccharine smile and veiled criticisms, sent a fresh wave of irritation through her. Amelia dragged herself out the back door, the cold air hitting her like a physical blow. The damp grass clung to her shoes as she made her way towards the fence, Buster already gleefully tearing through her petunias.

She picked herself up. She didn't have the energy to care.

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