miserable - Story 89936 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the note, the ink smeared by the rain. A single, clumsy question mark. He crumpled the paper, throwing it into the bin. The flowers, vibrant and ostentatious, mocked his tiny, cramped flat.

He hadn't been expecting anything like this. He had been expecting nothing. Everything seemed to be a constant struggle. Each morning he started with a determination to do something, to take care of himself.

He slumped onto the sofa, the spring poking into his back. He reached for the remote, but his hand seemed too heavy to lift. He was stuck.

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