miserable - Story 89597 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant city seemed to have lost its lustre. The bustling crowds, usually a source of energy, now grated on his nerves. He walked, aimlessly, through the crowded streets, the noise a constant assault. He pulled the collar of his coat higher, as if to shield himself from the world. Every smiling face, every laugh, felt like a deliberate taunt. He felt a deep, pervasive weariness, a longing for a place where the weight on his shoulders would lift.

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