gloomy - Story 54137 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant artwork in the university gallery, usually a source of inspiration for Chloe, felt mocking today. Each brushstroke, each splash of color, seemed to taunt her. She stood, frozen, in front of a painting, the accusation a dark stain against the beauty.

Her hands were cold, clammy. Her breath hitched in her chest. She found herself unable to appreciate anything. She walked away, feeling a sharp pang of envy for the artists, the creators. She felt a sense of unworthiness.

She sought refuge in a quiet corner of the gallery. She closed her eyes, trying to block out the world. The accusation, however, remained, an unwelcome guest inside her head.

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