miserable - Story 89606 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the faded image in his hand, his jaw clenched. His grandfather, the stern, principled patriarch, had a whole secret life. The photograph depicted him with a woman who was not his grandmother, her hand resting affectionately on his. Charles felt the blood drain from his face.

The stories he’d grown up with, stories of righteousness and unwavering commitment, now felt like a cruel joke. Every family gathering, every holiday celebration, now felt like a charade. The weight on his chest was almost unbearable.

Charles rose from his chair, the room spinning around him. He felt an intense need to escape, to be free from the oppressive weight of this newfound knowledge.

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