The coffee had gone cold, the newspaper unread. The apartment was a mess, mirroring the chaos inside her. She felt like she was constantly running, but not getting anywhere. He’d been acting strangely for months, distant and evasive.

The documents were in the file cabinet, behind the bills and tax forms. She felt a surge of nausea as she read the numbers. The account, in his name only. The purpose for the funds, listed: “Future.” A future that didn’t include her. The tears started, and she couldn't stop them.

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