gloomy - Story 54318 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house felt cold, even with the central heating turned up. He’d retreated to the armchair, pulling his sweater tighter, the weight of the day pressing down on him. Even the usually comforting scent of his partner's perfume seemed to irritate him.

A soft, melodic hum drifted from the office, piquing his interest. He stood up, slowly, his footsteps heavy.

He found Emily sitting at her desk, her brow furrowed in concentration, a textbook open before her. Then he heard the words, slow and deliberate, but undeniably his mother tongue. A strange, hollow sensation echoed within him.

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