gloomy - Story 54294 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No, no, no," she whispered, her voice barely audible, as the phone call ended. The receiver slipped from her numb fingers, landing with a soft thud on the plush carpet. Her carefully curated smile vanished.

The aroma of the roast chicken, once inviting, now made her stomach churn. She pushed the half-decorated table to the side with her foot, not caring that it bumped the wall.

She closed her eyes and inhaled, the scent of the flowers she had arranged earlier felt cloying and too sweet, making her head throb. The meticulously planned evening evaporated like morning mist.

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