miserable - Story 89729 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hospital room was sterile and silent. His father lay in the bed, his breathing shallow and labored. The weight of impending loss pressed down on him, suffocating him. He was tasked with sorting through his father's belongings.

He found a briefcase, filled with papers. He pulled out a letter. His father's letter of resignation from the military. The contents of the letter were filled with pain, the words barely legible. He spoke of the horror of constant war and the toll it took on the soul. He, who always wore a mask of invincibility. His stomach twisted. The air seemed thin.

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