miserable - Story 89829 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold wind whipped around Ava, stinging her face as she walked home. The project had been the only thing keeping her afloat. She had thought this might bring her some joy. It was all that she had. The project was the only thing that occupied her mind, the only thing that mattered.

She checked her messages. Subject: "Project Launch." It had the same exact content. Everything was the same. A wave of exhaustion washed over her.

Ava stopped walking. She felt a deep, crushing emptiness. The cold air suddenly felt unbearable. The world had become a bleak, monochrome canvas. She stood, frozen, alone.

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