gloomy - Story 54089 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He didn't want to talk about it. Didn’t want to think about it. The neighbor’s announcement hung in the air, a persistent irritant. He felt the familiar weight settle on his shoulders.

He avoided eye contact as he trudged to his mailbox, the metal cold against his hand. He wasn't even going to complain. What was the point?

He threw the unopened notice in the trash without a second glance. The very idea of the construction was enough to drain whatever little energy he had.

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