miserable - Story 89565 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car ride felt interminable. Ethan gripped the steering wheel so tight his knuckles were white. Tonight, he was turning thirty, and he was supposed to be celebrating. But, his best friend, Liam, was hosting a massive party at a trendy club, and Ethan's own, smaller, gathering felt insignificant.

He pulled over to the side of the road, the world around him blurring into grey. The thought of seeing Liam, of watching him bask in the attention, made him queasy. He rested his forehead against the steering wheel, a wave of weariness washing over him.

He pictured the music, the laughter, everything he wasn’t experiencing. The feeling became a knot in his stomach. He wasn’t sure how he was going to make it through the night.

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