miserable - Story 89560 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The apartment pulsed with an unnatural energy. His roommate, Sam, was so thrilled with the rabbits. They hopped around the apartment, leaving droppings. Mark felt his stomach churn.

He felt trapped.

He kept glancing at the calendar, counting down the days until his lease was up. Every bleat from the rabbits felt like a personal insult. He didn’t want to be here. He felt a dull ache in his head, a constant throbbing that mirrored his unease. He was exhausted.

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