gloomy - Story 54155 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the room was stale, thick with the scent of unwashed clothes and unspoken words. Mark paced the length of his small apartment, his steps echoing in the otherwise silent space. He and David had poured their hearts into the application process.

He glanced at the phone, its blank screen a constant reminder of the uncertainty that gripped him. He knew David was feeling the same way, the same hollow ache. The thought of their friendship, hanging by a thread, sent a fresh wave of something akin to dread through him.

"This is ridiculous," he muttered, running a hand through his hair. He sank onto the sofa, his posture reflecting the defeat he felt brewing within.

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