miserable - Story 89562 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah sighed, the sound barely a whisper. The aroma of freshly baked cake, meant to be a comfort, instead felt suffocating. Tonight, her friends would descend upon her small apartment for her birthday celebration. Simultaneously, across town, her ex-boyfriend, David, was throwing a lavish party for his own birthday. He’d even invited all their mutual friends, which felt a knife twisting within her.

She traced the cracks in the countertop, each one a testament to the days that felt broken. She hadn't wanted a big party. Just a few close friends. David, however, knew exactly how to make her feel small, irrelevant. She pictured him, surrounded by laughter and attention, and the air around her seemed to thicken with a palpable sadness.

Her phone buzzed, a group chat update about David’s party. Sarah tossed her phone onto the counter, the noise jarring. Maybe she’d just stay in bed and pretend today didn't exist.

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