gloomy - Story 54080 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The apartment was cold, even with the heater running. Rachel shivered, pulling her sweater tighter. She picked up her phone to see a message. It was her online friend "Moonbeam." They were discussing a park concert, a concert that was just a few blocks from her.

Rachel knew she should go, but the thought made her want to flee. She felt stuck in a deep hole. The idea of running into him filled her with a sense of dread. The pressure was suffocating.

She stared at the message, the words swimming before her eyes. The concert was tomorrow. She felt a sudden, intense weariness. She closed her eyes, wishing the world would just fade away. She curled up on the couch, unable to move.

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