The vibrant colours of the company logo on the front door mocked Kevin as he entered the building. He felt a deep sense of betrayal. He’d poured his heart and soul into this company for years.

He tried to force a smile as he greeted his colleagues, but it felt stiff and unnatural. His voice sounded strained, a faint tremor betraying his inner turmoil. He avoided the usual small talk, desperate to avoid any kind of engagement.

He sat at his desk, staring at the family photo. His wife would ask him, "How was your day?" He knew the answer he'd give her tonight would be a lie. He closed his eyes, and the image of a future he hadn't planned for filled his mind.

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