gloomy - Story 54150 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library was quiet, a fact that was usually calming to Maya. But today, the silence was suffocating. She sat at her usual desk, the one she always shared with Ms. Albright, the librarian who was her mentor. She had left with a note only. Maya felt a sharp sting in her chest, a sudden pang of regret.

She gazed at the empty chair across from her. Her usual books seemed uninteresting, the pages blurring together. She closed her eyes. The library seemed to shrink, the silence pressing in around her. When she opened her eyes again, she knew that she had never felt so alone.

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