gloomy - Story 54047 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the freshly planted flowers in her garden were mocking her. She should be outside, enjoying the sun, but the incessant racket from next door pushed her into the kitchen. She avoided her garden like it was a minefield.

She stared at the blank page in her journal, the pen heavy in her hand. She stared at it for an hour, the words a jumbled mess in her mind. She closed the journal and put it away. There was nothing to say. There was nothing to feel.

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