"Just… wow. That's it?" Maya's voice cracked, and she hated the sound of it. She couldn't believe it. After all the plans, all the late-night talks, after everything, her best friend, Lily, was moving to Texas. Tomorrow. She swallowed, trying to clear the lump in her throat.

She sat on the edge of Lily’s bed, surrounded by the chaos of packing. The room felt smaller, the air thicker. Lily was humming, energetic, while Maya was finding it difficult to even breathe.

She traced patterns on the bedspread, the floral design blurring through a film of tears she tried to blink away.

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