gloomy - Story 54139 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar weight of his backpack, usually a symbol of opportunity, felt like a leaden anchor on Mark's shoulders. He walked slowly through the campus, the accusation a constant shadow. He felt the eyes of strangers on him.

He avoided the gaze of his friends, unable to meet their eyes. His heart raced. The air felt thin. He clenched his fists, trying to find some form of control. He wanted to run, to escape the judgment, the whispers.

He looked at his feet as he walked, watching them take step after step, a monotonous rhythm in his internal turmoil. He stopped suddenly, his shoulders slumped. He felt defeated. He just wanted the world to stop turning.

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