gloomy - Story 54109 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library was quiet, the only sounds the rustle of pages and the soft hum of the fluorescent lights, a place that had always given Maria sanctuary. But today, the silence felt oppressive, the artificial light casting long shadows across her desk. The weight of the task ahead, training someone new to take her place, was exhausting.

The new employee, a young woman named Susan, arrived with a bouncy energy that was jarring. Maria tried to explain her responsibilities with a practiced efficiency. However, the joy she had once felt for her work had now vanished. Each explanation felt like a burden.

"I love books!" Susan said.

Maria just nodded, unable to meet her gaze. "Good."

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