gloomy - Story 54376 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He moved through the house with a listless gait, each step heavy. The air inside felt stagnant, heavy with unspoken words. He ran his hand over the polished banister, the smooth wood offering no comfort. The new house was supposed to be a place of healing, a sanctuary. But it felt more like a cage, the walls closing in. He wandered through the rooms, seeking… something.

He stopped in the study, his gaze drawn to the fireplace. The stonework looked slightly different, more weathered than the surrounding wall. He ran his hand over the surface, feeling a subtle give. He found a switch that was hard to feel, and pressed on it.

A section of the wall slid inward.

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