gloomy - Story 54187 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art studio seemed to have faded, replaced by a dull gray. The joy he once found in painting was gone, replaced by a sense of foreboding. He’d found the phone tucked away in a drawer, the messages sparking a cold dread. He couldn't shake the image of his partner, Leo, talking in hushed tones, the phone pressed to his ear. The silence in the studio felt heavy, the smell of turpentine acrid and unpleasant.

His hands shook as he picked up a brush. The canvas remained blank, the inspiration vanished.

He dropped the brush and rested his head on the table.

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