He stared at the screen, the glow reflecting in his unfocused eyes. The listing. His childhood home. Listed for sale. He felt a crushing sense of… something he couldn’t articulate. A heavy, suffocating sensation.

He clicked through the photos, each one a fresh assault. The familiar rooms, now transformed, mocked him. They were bright, modern, and utterly devoid of the memories he carried. He felt a deep, internal tremor.

He stood up abruptly, pacing the small apartment. He felt a profound sense of dislocation, like he'd been uprooted and cast adrift. The walls seemed to close in, the air thick with unspoken emotions.

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