gloomy - Story 54218 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stale air of the library made Chloe feel even more unsettled. The rustle of turning pages and the hushed whispers of other patrons did nothing to soothe her unease. She and Oliver were supposed to be sharing a memory of their trip to the art museum, but the memory was starting to feel skewed. Oliver was reminiscing about the beautiful paintings, the intellectual discussions.

She felt something else.

She remembered the crowded galleries, the aching feet, and the stifling feeling of obligation. She remembered being bored.

"It was so interesting," Oliver said, looking at her with confusion. "I have never felt so enlightened." The pages seemed to glare at her.

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