gloomy - Story 54059 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold wind whipped around Felix as he stepped into the pawn shop, the door's bell announcing his arrival with a mournful chime. The interior, though dim, offered a slight reprieve from the chill that had settled deep within him. He felt as though the world had turned dull.

He was just passing time. He stared at the contents of the display cases, filled with discarded objects. Then, he stopped. His heart skipped a beat. A ring. He knew it instantly, the unique engraving on the band.

He swallowed hard, fighting back a wave of emotion. He asked the shop owner, "How much is that ring?" His voice was flat, devoid of any inflection.

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