gloomy - Story 54383 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The restaurant buzzed with laughter and chatter, but for Emily, it was all background noise. She picked at her sushi, the seaweed wrapping feeling like a suffocating burden. "Ben" had been late again, and the apology, when it came, felt hollow. Her appetite had vanished along with the warmth of the day.

She saw him, across the room, talking to another woman. Her heart did a strange flip. The other woman turned, and their eyes met. The woman's face changed from polite to shocked. Emily felt a wave of nausea.

"Is that… Ben?" the other woman asked, her voice trembling slightly.

Emily just nodded, unable to speak, her throat suddenly constricted. She felt a cold dread spread through her, like icy water filling her veins.

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