miserable - Story 89948 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee, usually a comfort, now felt like a taunt. Liam sat at the kitchen table, pushing the steaming mug away from him. He couldn’t bring himself to touch it. He’d lost his appetite. His stomach churned.

He had found the pages tucked inside his partner, Alex’s, desk. "The Bitter Bloom," was the title. The protagonist, "Caleb," was a man utterly dependent on validation. Caleb was so pathetically eager to please.

Liam felt a knot tighten in his gut. The portrayal was brutal, unflinching. He wasn’t sure he could ever look at Alex the same way again.

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