miserable - Story 89674 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He couldn’t eat. The lasagna his roommate had made sat untouched on the table, congealing and cold. The announcement from Dr. Rodriguez hung over the apartment like a leaden cloud. Liam walked in circles, restless energy crackling beneath his skin. He stopped and started at his computer, unable to focus on his work. Each keystroke felt laborious, each sentence a struggle. He kept replaying the conversation in his head, his advisor’s words echoing in the silence: "A wonderful opportunity." But for *whom*?

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