gloomy - Story 54373 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, this is just great," Maya muttered, the words barely audible as she surveyed the kitchen. The cabinets were the wrong shade of beige, the countertops chipped, the entire space radiating a general air of neglect. She slumped against the island, feeling the familiar weight of disappointment settle in her stomach. The fresh starts were often the worst. The move was supposed to be an opportunity.

She traced the outline of a loose tile on the floor, picking at the grout with a fingernail. It gave way with a soft *pop*, revealing a small, dark space. The opening was so small and dark that she really didn't want to peer in.

After a long pause, she moved to peer in.

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