He avoided eye contact with everyone. The party was a blur of forced smiles and small talk. He kept his gaze fixed on the tablecloth, tracing the intricate floral pattern with his finger.

His mother, radiant in a new dress, approached him, a genuine smile on her face. He stammered a greeting, feeling a flush creep up his neck. The words seemed to stick in his throat.

She hugged him, and he stiffened, the embrace feeling both suffocating and painfully empty.

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