miserable - Story 89611 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation felt like a weight in Eleanor’s hand. She crumpled it again, tossing it onto the overflowing recycling bin. Sunlight streamed in, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air, a stark contrast to the gloom that settled in her chest.

She picked at a stray thread on the sofa, her gaze distant. The retirement party. For her mother. A celebration. She wasn't feeling particularly celebratory.

"I need your speech by next week," her sister had chirped on the phone. "Something heartfelt, you know? Mom deserves it." Eleanor had grunted in response. The thought of it churned in her stomach.

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