gloomy - Story 54369 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I dragged myself out the door, the chill of the morning seeping into my bones. The gray sky mirrored the landscape of my mood. The mailbox offered its usual paltry selection: bills, junk mail, and… a birthday card.

The cover showed a picture of a majestic eagle soaring above a mountain range. No name. Inside, a brief message: “Hope you find something to celebrate today.”

My heart constricted. Celebrate? I didn’t even want to get out of bed. The eagle seemed to be judging me. I closed the card, the paper feeling rough against my skin. I knew that I couldn't be any further away from joy.

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