"Excuse me," she muttered, quickly excusing herself from the study group. The news about Dr. Lee had hit her hard. She stumbled outside, gulping in the crisp autumn air. The words "resigned" and "departure" were swirling in her head like a bad dream. She started walking, aimlessly, not knowing where she was going or why. Her chest felt constricted, as if she couldn't take a full breath. She clenched and unclenched her fists, trying to find some semblance of control.

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