gloomy - Story 54193 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee tasted like ash in Michael's mouth. He avoided eye contact with his wife as he got ready to leave. The day ahead felt heavy, a burden he couldn't quite shake off. The thought of the school open house filled him with a quiet despair. He dreaded seeing the classrooms, the same chalky smell, the same bland posters.

He entered his son’s classroom. A woman with kind eyes greeted him. "I'm Mrs. Davies, your son's teacher," she said, her voice warm and welcoming. But when she mentioned the name "Davies", a wave of something akin to nausea threatened to overwhelm him. He'd had a Davies. He'd never liked his Davies.

He forced a smile and listened as she spoke about his son's artistic talent. He found himself studying Mrs. Davies. Was she related? He hoped not. He hoped his son wouldn’t be made to feel as small as he often had. The air in the room felt thick and suffocating.

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