“No,” she whispered, the word barely audible. The email confirmed the worst, a harsh sentence delivered without mercy. The vibrant colors of the campus, usually a source of inspiration, seemed to dull, the cheerful chatter of students annoying. She didn't want to see anyone.

She walked towards her dorm, each step feeling heavier than the last. She fumbled with her keys, finally unlocking the door and shutting herself inside. The small room, usually a comfort, felt cold and empty.

She sank onto the bed, staring at the ceiling. The future, which had seemed so clear just a few hours ago, now seemed foggy and uncertain.

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
0.255
Suppressed:
la-0.432
l-0.419
de-0.398
B-0.294
!-0.259