gloomy - Story 54186 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A sense of lethargy had taken root in his bones, a profound tiredness that sleep couldn't alleviate. He found himself avoiding eye contact with Chloe, the woman he had loved. He felt like a stranger in his own life. The phone calls, the secretive whispers, the guarded expressions – it was a toxic cocktail. The apartment felt smaller, the walls closing in. He stared at the ceiling for hours.

He felt the creeping despair begin to take hold.

He would have to do something.

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