gloomy - Story 54210 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The day felt… hollow. She’d been wandering through the house, unable to find a single thing that sparked joy. The light from the windows felt weak, the shadows seemed to crowd in. She'd been staring out at the trees, but seeing nothing.

A sudden, sharp metallic sound echoed through the house. Her pulse quickened with a sense of dread. She went to the window, and saw her bright red convertible, her pride and joy, being loaded onto a tow truck. A newly installed no-parking sign glared at her.

Her breath hitched. She felt… emptied. She sank into a nearby chair, the weight of the world pressing down on her. The world spun.

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