The exam paper felt like a lead weight in Jessica’s hand. She couldn’t focus. The knowledge she had, the information she knew, had evaporated. Mr. Carter, her history teacher, followed her. She wanted to vanish.

The room swam before her eyes. The other students blurred into an indistinguishable mass. She felt an overwhelming sense of failure. She had been trying so hard to appear confident, to impress others, to be popular. And now, the teacher saw right through her.

She looked at the exam questions, a cold sweat beading on her forehead. The words swam before her eyes. She felt the tears prick her eyes. The world seemed to be closing in.

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