miserable - Story 89628 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the gym hung thick with the smell of sweat and desperation. Ethan felt like he was suffocating. Coach Miller, his P.E. teacher, had started following him on social media. Everything felt wrong.

He missed his shots, fumbled the ball, and felt a burning shame. He felt exposed, revealed. The playful banter, the easy camaraderie of the locker room, felt manufactured. He felt like an imposter.

He wanted to scream, to lash out. He felt a knot in his chest. His breath came in ragged gasps. He wanted to crawl into a hole and disappear.

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