gloomy - Story 54240 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared out the window, the rain mirroring the turmoil within him. His diary, documenting the raw emotions of his youth, was now circulating the internet. Each comment, each share, felt like another blow. The feeling was like being physically punched.

He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture conveying his helplessness. He hadn't eaten all day. The thought of food was nauseating.

He felt utterly depleted, drained of energy. The future felt bleak, uncertain. He longed for the peace that seemed forever out of reach.

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