gloomy - Story 54046 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“More noise,” he mumbled, his voice a low grumble. He hadn't slept well in weeks. The hammering, the sawing, the incessant noise... it all seeped into his dreams. He stared out the window, watching the construction workers with a kind of detached indifference.

The house felt cold, even with the heater on. He’d made himself a cup of coffee, but it was lukewarm, and the taste did nothing to lift his spirits. He went back to bed, pulling the covers over his head.

Emotion: gloomy

Cluster: Sadness / Despair

PC1 (Valence): -1.68 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -1.37

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion gloomy. 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 gloomy stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the gloomy emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the gloomy vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`😞`	0.368
`无法`	0.319
`😔`	0.300
`いつも`	0.270
`쓸`	0.255

Suppressed:

`la`	-0.432
`l`	-0.419
`de`	-0.398
`B`	-0.294
`!`	-0.259