miserable - Story 89610 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He clutched the photograph, the paper crinkling in his sweaty palm. His uncle, the stoic war hero, was caught smiling with a woman who definitely wasn't his aunt, a woman who seemed to light up at his very presence. Richard felt an overwhelming feeling of despondency wash over him.

He felt as though the ground had been swept from under him. The stories, the legends of his family, the narratives that gave him comfort, now felt like a cruel joke. The walls seemed to be closing in on him.

Richard threw the photograph onto the dusty table and walked away, the weight of the secret pressing down on him.

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