gloomy - Story 54160 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of brewing coffee usually invigorated Freya, but today, it did nothing. She knew that the person who got the job, she could be friends with for life. She had wanted it so badly. She was happy for the other candidates, but she'd known the job would go to her and her best friend, John.

She ran a hand through her hair, the strands catching on her fingers. The air in the kitchen felt heavy, stagnant. Her shoulders slumped.

She looked at her reflection in the toaster and thought she looked weary and old. She opened the fridge and grabbed a glass of water, and realized the ice cubes were already melting.

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