gloomy - Story 54406 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Look, a garden!" Eleanor chirped, tugging at her brother, Thomas’s sleeve. He didn't respond, his gaze fixed on the front door, a heavy frown etched onto his face. The overgrown weeds and neglected flowerbeds mirrored the untended corners of his own mind.

He trudged behind Eleanor, feeling the sun, yet not feeling the warmth. He ran a hand through his hair, a gesture he realized he made often now. He was aware of a constant tension within him, a knot he couldn't untie.

Inside, the house smelled of mildew and age. He leaned against the cool wall, the silence amplified in his ears. Eleanor was chattering, but he didn't hear her. He just wanted to disappear.

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