miserable - Story 89758 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dust motes danced in the single shaft of sunlight that pierced the gloom of the attic. He hadn’t been up here in years, the memories were too much. Boxes overflowed with forgotten treasures and painful reminders. A letter lay on top of a trunk, addressed in his mother’s delicate hand. She had passed away, but her apology, for a long-ago perceived slight, had finally arrived, delivered by a lawyer. He felt a profound, debilitating sadness, which settled deep into his bones.

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