gloomy - Story 54273 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator doors opened onto a floor bathed in sunlight, yet Sarah felt a chill run down her spine. The air, thick with the scent of freshly brewed coffee, felt stale to her. She hugged her arms across her chest as she walked down the unfamiliar hallway.

"Welcome aboard!" The manager's greeting bounced off her, unanswered. Her voice seemed stuck in her throat. She simply nodded in response.

She found herself avoiding eye contact, afraid that the happiness in others’ eyes might expose her own feelings. The vibrant energy felt like a performance.

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