gloomy - Story 54310 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his lunch, a half-eaten sandwich, with little interest. The cafeteria buzzed with lunchtime chatter, but Thomas felt isolated, adrift in a sea of indifference. The news about the junior colleague's salary hung over him like a dark cloud, making it difficult to breathe. The food felt like cardboard.

He pushed his plate away, his appetite gone. He noticed his colleague, Emily, who made more money than him. She smiled at him, but he avoided her gaze. He felt a deep sense of resentment, an emotion he found difficult to control. His heart beat faster.

He felt the familiar pressure building in his chest. He wished he could go home.

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