miserable - Story 89999 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sophia walked through the crowded cafeteria, her appetite completely gone. The constant chatter and clatter of trays grated on her nerves. Her essay, the intimate story she thought would help her get to college, was now a source of shame. It felt as if her secret had been stolen and plastered everywhere.

She felt a hollowness, a deep void in her chest.

She felt her breath catch in her throat.

She wanted to run, to escape the judging eyes and the whispers.

She sat at a table by herself, unable to eat, unable to look up.

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