The elevator ride felt impossibly long. The metal walls seemed to press in on her, suffocating her. When the doors finally opened, she stumbled out, barely able to see past the tears blurring her vision. Professor Klein leaving. The news was a punch to the gut. All her hard work, the countless hours spent in the lab… It felt like she was standing at the edge of a cliff, the ground crumbling beneath her feet. She leaned against the cold brick of the building, the world spinning.

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