gloomy - Story 54216 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bright sunlight of the park felt harsh against Jessica's skin as she sat on the bench, watching the children play. The laughter of the kids, normally a source of cheer, grated on her nerves. She was remembering her and Emily's graduation, where they had celebrated with so many friends. She remembered the feeling of hope, the thrill of freedom.

She looked at it differently.

Jessica remembered the feeling of dread and the knowledge that everything good was ending.

"I still think it's the best day," Emily said, a big smile on her face. "It's the beginning of everything!" The sun felt hotter.

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