She had been avoiding the post all day. But there they were, a huge bundle of irises and freesia, sitting on the kitchen table. She’d been so busy, so distracted, trying to keep busy.

The vivid colours seemed to pierce through the fog in her mind. She turned away, unable to meet their gaze. The silence of the house pressed in on her, suffocating. She walked from room to room, touching things, but everything felt unreal.

She found herself back in the kitchen, staring at the flowers again. She slumped into a chair, the weight of the day crashing down on her. The scent made her stomach churn.

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
焑法0.270
πŸ’”0.265
πŸ˜”0.262
Suppressed:
de-0.490
la-0.329
B-0.300
l-0.292
/-0.224