gloomy - Story 54103 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world outside the warehouse was a riot of sunshine, a sharp contrast to the dimly lit interior where David was preparing to train his replacement. His stomach churned with a familiar unease. The metal of the equipment felt cold beneath his touch, a stark reminder of the job he was about to lose.

He tried to focus on the task at hand, demonstrating the proper procedures for operating the forklift. His instructions, once delivered with a practiced efficiency, now felt like a recitation, devoid of passion. He felt like a broken machine himself, going through the motions. The new guy, a fresh-faced kid named Ben, seemed enthusiastic. David just felt tired.

"Got it?" David asked, his voice rough.

Ben grinned, nodding. "Yep! Ready to go."

David just sighed.

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