gloomy - Story 54253 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee tasted like ash in her mouth. She hadn't bothered to dress, her pajamas clinging to her like a second skin. The apartment, usually a haven of creativity, felt like a cage. The published article, the one she’d bled for, now bore another name, mocking her with its success.

Her fingers traced the lines of her face in the mirror, noticing the shadows beneath her eyes. Her reflection stared back, a stranger marked by an invisible wound. The cheerful chirping of a bird outside her window felt like a deliberate insult. She pushed the mirror away, feeling a sudden need to hide.

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