gloomy - Story 54067 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pizza was cold, the pizza delivery guy's cheerful greeting a cruel contrast to his mood. He’d been expecting a celebration. The email's message was a punch to the gut. The pepperoni on his pizza looked as appetizing as a pile of cardboard. He lost his appetite immediately.

He left the half-eaten pizza on the table. The phone rang, his mother calling to check in. He knew what she was going to ask. The thought of explaining, of admitting defeat, filled him with dread. He let the call go to voicemail.

He picked up a nearby book, unable to read the words. The colorful cover seemed aggressively cheerful.

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