gloomy - Story 54368 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air hung heavy with the scent of burnt toast and unfulfilled promises. Fiona stared at the clock, the seconds ticking away with agonizing slowness. She knew, with a certainty that chilled her to the bone, that today would be no different from any other. It was her birthday.

She walked to the mailbox. Inside, a single card. A picture of a smiling sun adorned the front. He flipped it over, no return address. Just a simple message inside: "Happy Birthday!"

Fiona stared at the card. A knot formed in her stomach. She felt a burning sensation behind her eyes. The sun on the card seemed to mock her. She went back inside, leaving the card there. The light from outside seemed to have faded.

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