gloomy - Story 54375 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The movers had departed, leaving a wake of chaos in their path. Clara surveyed her new home, the silence amplifying the thrum of her own unhappiness. The sunlight streamed through the windows, but it didn't seem to reach the depths of her soul. She picked at a loose thread on the sofa, the motion as empty as the space inside her. The prospect of unpacking, of making this house a home, felt like an insurmountable task.

Resting her hand on a bookshelf, she noticed it felt loose, the wood uneven. She pushed on it.

The shelf swung inward, revealing a gap behind it.

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