miserable - Story 89706 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the break room pressed in on her. She picked at the corners of her sandwich, the taste of the food lost to the sourness in her mouth. She had a headache, which always seemed to happen on Mondays. She sighed.

"Hey, Carol! Did you ever go to Camp Willow Creek?" asked Michael, his voice upbeat.

Carol looked up, her expression strained. "Yeah," she replied, her tone curt. She took another bite of her sandwich.

Michael beamed. "I loved it there! Remember the cookouts?"

Carol pushed her food away. She didn't want to reminisce about camp. It brought up a bad memory. She felt like crying.

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