miserable - Story 89808 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer’s words echoed in Maria’s ears, each syllable a hammer blow to her already fragile emotional state. Her husband had just left. Now, this discovery of a half-brother felt like the final blow.

She slammed the file onto the table, the papers scattering across the surface. Her breath came in ragged gasps. The house, once filled with laughter, now felt cavernous and empty. She couldn't bring herself to care about her appearance. She didn't want to leave the house.

She curled up on the sofa, pulling a blanket around her like a shield. The world seemed to be closing in, the walls pressing closer with each passing moment. The thought of facing another day filled her with dread.

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