miserable - Story 89539 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The party, which had once seemed vibrant and exciting, now felt like a cruel mockery. The music thumped, the laughter grated on his nerves, and the air was thick with a joy he couldn’t share. He stood alone in the corner of the room, clutching a lukewarm drink.

He’d received the news that morning: the scholarship, a mirage. An administrative error. The world seemed to shrink around him.

He felt the unwelcome sting of jealousy as he watched others celebrate. The weight of his situation seemed to press him down, making it hard to breathe. He wanted to scream.

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