gloomy - Story 54300 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow, stealing the air from his lungs. His carefully arranged plans, all the anticipation he'd been carrying, collapsed around him.

He pushed the half-filled shopping cart away from the grocery store, ignoring the concerned glances of other shoppers. The bright colours of the festive displays felt garish and offensive.

He walked aimlessly through the park, the sounds of children laughing and playing grating on his ears. The vibrant landscape was a painful reminder of the joy he was missing.

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