gloomy - Story 54336 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blank page, unable to find the words. The task, writing a celebratory piece, seemed insurmountable. The subject: The Spice Route, closing after thirty years. The irony was not lost on him.

He pushed himself away from the desk. His hands felt clammy. His breath came in shallow gasps. The vibrant colors of his apartment, the things that usually pleased him, now seemed to mock him, reminding him of what he was losing.

He wandered through the rooms, unable to settle. A cold dread had settled in his stomach, a physical representation of the loss he was feeling. Dinner felt impossible.

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