gloomy - Story 54085 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow. A sense of being walled in, trapped. The proposed fence seemed to symbolize everything that was missing: openness, connection, ease.

"Just another thing," he muttered, picking up the discarded newspaper. The headlines swam before his eyes. He wished he could just shut everything down.

He walked to the window, the sun a pale and useless presence. He could barely muster the strength to water the wilted plants on the sill. Everything seemed to be fading, just like him.

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