miserable - Story 89763 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car radio blared, but the music was just a meaningless noise in her ears. She pulled up to the curb, the engine idling. The engine was so loud. Her mouth felt dry, her tongue sticking to the roof.

She got out, slowly, her movements sluggish. Her gaze drifted toward the empty space, and the breath caught in her throat. A wave of nausea surged through her, and she had to grip the door frame for support. The world seemed to tilt.

It was gone. The tree was gone. He had a tight feeling inside that threatened to explode.

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