miserable - Story 89870 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news played on a loop in Ms. Johnson's head. The world was overwhelming, and she felt powerless against its troubles. Her own problems seemed insignificant, yet they still weighed her down. She was exhausted.

A small package arrived on her doorstep. Inside, a collection of handwritten letters from former students, each detailing a specific memory of her class. A simple note was attached: "You made a difference. We are grateful." She began to read, a feeling she hadn't felt in a long time, gently creeping through her.

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