gloomy - Story 54177 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The city lights blurred through the car window as Ben drove aimlessly, the radio turned off. He'd been looking forward to seeing Alex, hearing about his "amazing deals," but now Ben knew that Alex was broke, living with his parents.

Ben slammed a fist against the steering wheel. He felt a profound sense of loss, a void where admiration and respect had once resided. He’d always strived to emulate Alex's apparent success. He felt ashamed of himself, for being so easily fooled.

He pulled over to the side of the road, the sudden stop jarring him. The world seemed to have tilted on its axis, leaving him disoriented and adrift.

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