miserable - Story 89919 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he couldn't control. The air hung heavy with the scent of freshly cut grass, a smell that usually brought him joy, but today only amplified his unease. Every step felt like wading through mud. His appetite was completely gone.

He saw Mrs. Chen approaching, her usual bright clothing clashing with his dark mood. She gestured towards the old oak tree that towered over their yards. “Good day, Thomas. I was wondering if you’d consider…” He wanted to disappear. He felt like his chest was being squeezed in a vise.

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