gloomy - Story 54079 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence was the worst part. Every sound seemed amplified, mocking his solitude. He glanced at his phone. It was "SunshineDreams," talking about a new farmers market. He knew the market well; it was a quick bus ride away. He couldn't go.

The weight of it all was crushing. He longed to be like those people he saw online. He was not as they imagined him. He didn’t want to ruin the picture she had in her head. The potential reality felt too dangerous.

He looked around the room, the clutter a reflection of his own inner turmoil. He was a prisoner of his own making. He considered the message, and then deleted it. He sighed.

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