miserable - Story 89612 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blank document on his laptop screen, the cursor blinking accusingly. The glow of the screen felt harsh against the dim room. His shoulders slumped. This was a duty, a formality. It felt like another brick in the wall he was building between himself and any genuine connection.

He rubbed his temples, the beginnings of a headache blossoming behind his eyes. The coffee, cold now, sat abandoned on the desk beside him. He should be happy for his father. He knew he should.

He typed a single word: "Congratulations." Then deleted it.

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