gloomy - Story 54264 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The locker room smelled of sweat and despair. Mark ran a hand through his already messy hair, leaving it even more disheveled. The hockey team roster was posted, and his name wasn't on it. He kicked at a stray water bottle, sending it skittering across the floor. He hadn't told anyone yet, not his parents, not his friends. He didn't know how.

He stared at his reflection in the mirror, his face a mask of disillusionment. He felt hollow, like something vital had been ripped away. The vibrant energy he usually possessed had evaporated. He felt the sting of tears as he pictured his gear gathering dust in the garage, his hockey stick abandoned.

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