miserable - Story 89753 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chipped teacup trembled in her hand, the lukewarm liquid doing nothing to soothe the tremor in her fingers. Everything felt too bright, too loud. The insistent hum of the refrigerator felt like a personal attack. Years ago, a careless remark had severed her relationship with her sister, Sarah. An apology arrived in the mail today. It was a flimsy piece of paper, yet it seemed to weigh a ton in her trembling hands. The knot in her stomach tightened. She hated that she still cared.

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