gloomy - Story 54308 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive home was a blur of muted colors and a soundtrack of unspoken frustration. Sarah replayed the conversation in her head. The casual brag of the junior colleague’s salary had left a mark on her like a physical blow. The radio seemed to mock her with its upbeat music.

She clutched the steering wheel, her knuckles white. The city lights seemed to blur, reflecting her inner turmoil. She wanted to scream but she knew she couldn't. She didn't want to wake her kids.

When she arrived at her house she parked the car and sat there. Her heart was beating fast and she felt cold. She was afraid to go inside.

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