miserable - Story 89646 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Another round of layoffs, you think?" Maria heard the question as she got a cup of coffee. The coffee tasted weak, watery. The question itself, however, was strong. Too strong.

The walk to her desk felt longer than usual. The familiar scent of printer ink and stale air usually soothed her, but today it was nauseating. The air seemed to be thick with unspoken anxieties.

She avoided looking at her emails. The thought of opening them and facing a barrage of bad news filled her with dread. She sat down, her back rigid, and stared blankly at her computer screen. She felt like she wanted to scream.

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