miserable - Story 89608 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of mothballs filled the air as David thumbed through the box. He found a picture of his grandmother, a woman celebrated for her piety and virtue, locked in a passionate embrace with a man who was decidedly not his grandfather. The weight of this revelation settled heavily on his shoulders.

He felt a deep sense of disillusionment, as if the foundation of his life had crumbled. The stories, the anecdotes, the very fabric of his family history now felt like a twisted tapestry of deceit. He could barely swallow, a lump forming in his throat.

David stumbled out of the room, needing air, needing to escape the suffocating confines of his family's carefully crafted illusion.

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