gloomy - Story 54370 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the day settled on Michael. He knew what today was, and the knowledge was a leaden cloak. He shuffled outside, his steps slow and hesitant. The mailbox offered a single, unexpected surprise: a birthday card.

The card’s cover showed a single, perfect rose. No name on the envelope. Inside, the message read: "Wishing you all the best." He turned the card over in his hands, feeling its strange texture.

He wanted to throw the card away. He wanted to burn it. He wanted to disappear. He felt the familiar pressure in his chest. A profound loneliness washed over him. The rose’s perfect petals seemed to mock the decay of his spirit.

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