gloomy - Story 54087 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun cast long shadows, but they couldn't reach the hollow core within him. The sight of the lumber being delivered next door filled him with a quiet despair.

He felt the weight of it all, the endlessness of tasks and obligations. The fence felt like a tangible representation of all the walls he'd been building around himself.

He sank into his armchair, the cushions doing little to alleviate the ache in his bones. The silence of his house pressed in, a suffocating blanket.

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