gloomy - Story 54268 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of chlorine, once invigorating, now felt suffocating. Sarah sat at the edge of the pool, her legs dangling in the water. She was supposed to be swimming on the relay team, a culmination of years of training. The water, usually a source of comfort, felt cold against her skin.

She watched the other swimmers, their movements graceful and effortless. A wave of sadness washed over her, making her want to melt away. She clutched the edge of the pool, feeling like she was being pulled under by the weight of her sadness.

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