gloomy - Story 54357 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic felt like a tomb. Rebecca pulled the door open, the hinges groaning in protest. It was an unwelcome task, one she'd been putting off. The darkness seemed to press in on her.

She found a collection of old paintings leaning against the far wall. They were amateurish, depicting scenes of nature and family gatherings. She didn't know the people in the paintings, but she understood their longing.

She felt a wave of emptiness wash over her as she studied the canvases. She sank to the floor, her back against the cold wall, feeling suddenly small and insignificant.

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