miserable - Story 89566 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Another layer of icing," Maya sighed, staring at the cake she was making. It was her birthday. A day to celebrate. Except, her friend, Olivia, was throwing a party at a fancy restaurant tonight, and Maya's casual get-together seemed… wrong. She had spent the morning working on this cake, but now, the frosting felt like a prison.

She scraped a blob of icing back into the bowl with a frustrated thump. The kitchen, usually her sanctuary, felt confining. Everything felt heavy, the air thick.

A message from her mom popped up, a simple "Happy Birthday!" followed by a question about her plans. Maya ignored it. The thought of explaining her muted emotions felt too difficult.

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