gloomy - Story 54104 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee shop buzzed with a Saturday morning energy that felt overwhelmingly vibrant to Clara. She sipped her lukewarm tea, the taste doing nothing to soothe the turmoil within. She was supposed to meet her replacement here, a woman named Emily, to show her the ropes of running the small bookstore. The thought filled her with a heavy dread.

She watched Emily walk through the door, beaming, the very picture of energetic optimism. Clara plastered on a smile, the muscles in her face aching with the effort.

"So excited to get started!" Emily gushed.

Clara just nodded, her throat tight. "Let's go then." She led the way, the weight of the day pressing down on her shoulders.

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