miserable - Story 89868 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the apartment was thick with the scent of stale coffee and unwashed clothes. Mr. Harrison stared blankly at the ceiling, the ceiling fan turning uselessly. He was struggling, unable to find the energy to do even the simplest tasks. Life was nothing but a burden.

He received a small, beautifully crafted wooden bird. Attached was a note. “You taught us to soar. Thank you, Mr. Harrison.” He held it up to the light, the intricate carving a testament to skill and patience. Something stirred within him, a flicker of something close to hope.

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