The house was too quiet. The silence pressed in on her, amplified by the emptiness within her. She moved, numbly, through the rooms, the air thick with unspoken words. Her gaze landed on the dusty bookshelf, where her favourite books sat - her companions, her solace. She found herself unable to pick them up, unable to draw any comfort from their covers. She felt a profound sense of aloneness, a deep hollowness she wasn't sure how to fill.

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