miserable - Story 89614 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car ride over was a silent torture. Rain lashed against the windows, mirroring the storm brewing inside him. He stared out at the blurry cityscape, each passing building a monument to everything he felt he’d failed to achieve.

He picked at a loose cuticle, ignoring his wife’s attempts at conversation. Her voice, usually a comfort, grated on him today.

He thought of the speech again, the words he had to deliver. The forced smiles, the hollow praise. A wave of nausea rolled through 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