gloomy - Story 54049 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He walked the dog, but the walk offered no relief. The hammering, the drilling, they followed him. Even the dog seemed subdued. He let go of the leash, letting the dog lead them, his own pace slow, his own feet dragging.

The park felt empty. The green, bright foliage should have uplifted him, but instead, it felt wrong, unnatural. He found a bench and sat down, staring at the ground, as if he could lose himself in the dirt. He felt a vast hollowness within him.

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