gloomy - Story 54248 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“It's not your fault,” his sister had said, but the words felt hollow. Sarah had just received the news of her medical records being mixed up with someone else. She felt like her life had been ransacked.

She found herself replaying every doctor’s appointment, every shared confidence, every detail she had revealed. The weight of her past secrets felt suffocating. She tried to take a deep breath, but it got stuck in her throat.

Sarah sat on the porch swing, the rhythmic creak of the chains offering no solace. The setting sun cast long shadows, painting the world in shades of melancholy. It was as if her spirit had been stolen away, leaving behind a husk.

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