miserable - Story 89619 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive back was even worse than the ride there. He could still hear the clinking glasses, the forced laughter, the hollow praise. He gripped the steering wheel so hard his knuckles were white.

He switched the radio off, silencing the upbeat music. The silence, though, felt heavier, more oppressive. His chest ached.

The speech. It had felt like a performance, a charade. He felt like a fraud.

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