gloomy - Story 54122 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared out at the tarmac, the vast expanse of asphalt a reflection of the emptiness that had started to creep into his chest. This stupid delay! He clenched his jaw, the muscles in his face rigid. His grandfather’s last chance to see him. He had promised. The incessant drone of the airport PA system felt like a constant mockery, each announcement of a departing flight a fresh stab of disappointment.

A small child nearby started to wail, and he grimaced, wishing they would all just shut up and leave him alone. He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture conveying a fatigue that went beyond simple travel exhaustion. The hours stretched before him, an endless expanse of enforced inactivity, and the knowledge of his failure to get there on time was a heavy burden he couldn't seem to shed.

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