gloomy - Story 54276 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found himself avoiding the lunch room, choosing instead to eat alone at his desk, staring blankly at the computer screen. The emails piled up, unread and ignored.

The laughter of his new colleagues sounded like a foreign language. He missed the familiar rhythm of his old team. The comfort of the known.

The new software training seemed like a distant chore. He found himself daydreaming, lost in memories.

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