gloomy - Story 54116 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“We need you at short stop,” the manager had informed him, his tone neutral. Peter sat in the dugout, the familiar smell of dirt and grass unable to soothe the tension knotting his shoulders. His spot was in the outfield, a place where he could utilize his speed and his arm. He always felt alive out there. Now he felt constricted. He watched the other players stretch and chat, their carefree attitudes a stark contrast to his own tight-lipped silence.

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