gloomy - Story 54054 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air inside the pawn shop was thick with the scent of stale cigarettes and desperation. Evelyn, avoiding eye contact with the other customers, felt the weight of the day settle over her like a suffocating blanket. Her shoulders slumped, and she felt a distinct reluctance to move. The world seemed muted and colorless.

Her gaze landed on a display case, filled with trinkets and forgotten memories. There, amidst the clutter, she saw it. A ring, its distinctive setting instantly recognizable. It was the ring she had given her grandmother, the ring that held so many cherished memories.

She couldn’t believe her eyes. "Can I take a look at that one?" she asked, her voice barely a whisper, a thread of emotion cracking through the monotone.

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