The air conditioning blasted cold air. He sat alone at a table near the back, nursing a drink. He’d barely touched his food. He watched the others laughing, clapping, and offering congratulations.

He wished he were anywhere else. His thoughts drifted to a past he couldn't change and a future that looked bleak.

He pushed his plate away, a feeling of deep weariness settling over him. He felt hollow, as if everything good had been sucked out of 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
焑法0.270
πŸ’”0.265
πŸ˜”0.262
Suppressed:
de-0.490
la-0.329
B-0.300
l-0.292
/-0.224