gloomy - Story 54410 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the past settled over Liam like a physical burden as he and his sister, Chloe, stepped inside. He stood just inside the door, unable to move, while Chloe danced around him, excited, taking in the space. He felt the edges of his world blurring, the colors fading.

He ran a hand over the cold, rough wall, wishing the silence would finally consume him. It was a silence he knew he could never escape. He just wanted it all to stop.

“So much potential!” Chloe squealed, eyes sparkling. He nodded slowly, wanting to disappear. He didn’t want to be here.

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