gloomy - Story 54199 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house felt stifling. The anticipation for the upcoming school event weighed on Mark. He felt an unusual heaviness in his limbs. He didn't want to leave his room. He felt lethargic, unwilling to engage with the world.

He walked into the fourth-grade classroom, searching for his son's name. A woman with a kind smile greeted him. He scanned the room. The decor was familiar. Then he saw it: Mrs. Jones. The same Mrs. Jones.

The room seemed to spin slightly. He remembered her from decades ago. He hoped for the best for his son. His mouth felt dry. The old memories were fresh as they hit him with a new intensity. He could barely focus.

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