miserable - Story 89535 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Is everything alright, sweetheart?" her mother asked, her voice laced with concern. He forced a smile, but the corners of his mouth felt stiff and unnatural. He couldn't meet her gaze.

The scholarship, his saving grace, had been rescinded. A name that wasn’t his was associated with the award. The university admitted their error, but offered no recourse. He felt a wave of nausea, a dizzying sensation that threatened to overwhelm him.

His carefully constructed world felt shaky, uncertain. Each breath felt labored, each moment a struggle. He knew what this meant, he knew his plans were destroyed, and he could barely speak, lest his voice betray the way he was truly feeling.

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