miserable - Story 89989 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chipped paint on the walls seemed to mock Leo with its imperfections, an apt representation of his current state. He pushed a half-eaten plate of pasta away, the food suddenly tasteless.

The weight of the notice felt almost physical, pressing down on him. Each moment was punctuated by a growing feeling of unease. He felt trapped.

He walked to the window and stared at the other buildings, the other lives. He felt a burning sensation in his eyes.

He buried his face in his hands.

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