gloomy - Story 54277 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant, open-plan office of the creative team felt like a prison cell to her. The bright colors felt overly stimulating, and the constant buzz of conversation grated on her nerves. She longed for the quiet solitude of her old corner office.

"So, what do you think?" The project manager's enthusiastic question seemed to pierce through her, exposing her feelings. She managed a weak smile, but her heart wasn't in it.

The tasks assigned to her felt like mountains. The thought of starting fresh was a burden she could hardly shoulder.

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