gloomy - Story 54097 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world outside seemed vibrant, full of life, while everything within felt dull and muted. He sat on the porch, watching the neighborhood kids play, their laughter echoing in the air. Each shout, each giggle, was a tiny stab, reminding him of what he was missing.

He didn't want to go inside, to face the quiet house, the disapproving eyes of his parents. The sun beat down, but he felt a persistent chill creeping up his spine.

He closed his eyes, wishing he could fast forward to the moment when things felt different, when the shadows receded.

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