gloomy - Story 54296 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the calendar, the date circled in red, now a stark reminder of what wouldn't be. The anticipation, the planning, the tiny details he'd obsessed over – all for naught. A sigh escaped him, heavy and drawn out.

His shoulders slumped as he walked through the house, the decorations he'd put up earlier seemed pathetic. His favorite, brightly coloured plates felt particularly offensive.

He sank onto the sofa, the plush cushions offering no comfort. The silence of the house pressed in on him, suffocating, each tick of the clock a slow, deliberate stab.

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