miserable - Story 89780 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom was quiet, filled with the hushed whispers of anticipation. I shifted uneasily in my seat, unable to meet my sister, Clara’s, gaze. She sat ramrod straight, radiating an aura of confident expectation. The lawyer adjusted his tie. "Miss Clara, you inherit the family's law practice, a prestigious and well-respected firm." Clara's posture stiffened with pleasure as she began to outline her plans to improve the company.

A terrible ache settled in my stomach. The practice was everything I had wanted.

"And Mr. Thomas," the lawyer continued, his voice softer, "you inherit the family’s collection of antique books, including rare first editions and manuscripts." A wave of profound disappointment washed over me. I wanted to scream. Books. It felt like my life was a cruel joke.

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