miserable - Story 89508 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone vibrated on the table, another notification. Her hand instinctively reached for it, and she just stared. She was so tired of everything. The dog, the constant worry, the never-ending cycle. It was too much.

She wanted to retreat, to hide. She just wanted to be left alone. She felt a burning in her eyes. It was all pointless.

She put on her shoes. She stood there, frozen, for a moment. Then, she opened the door.

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