miserable - Story 89709 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fluorescent lights seemed to buzz directly into her brain, amplifying her inner turmoil. She felt a profound sense of isolation, a deep chasm between herself and everyone else. She wanted to retreat.

"Hey, Susan," called Robert from the other side of the office. "Were you ever at Camp Silver Lake?"

Susan slowly turned to him. "Yes," she said quietly. Her voice was flat, devoid of emotion.

"I was a counselor there!" Robert replied. "Remember the talent show? You were amazing at the piano!"

Susan averted her gaze, her cheeks flushed. The memory was not a fond one. She wanted to be invisible. She turned back to her computer.

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