gloomy - Story 54443 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dorm room smelled like stale pizza and unspoken anxieties. Sunlight struggled to penetrate the perpetually closed blinds, casting the space in a perpetual twilight. Everything felt muted, as if observed from behind a pane of frosted glass.

She’d just gotten back from a lackluster lecture. The professor’s words had seemed to bounce harmlessly off her. A shadow fell across the desk. It was Liam, her roommate, holding her pen, and her diary was on her bed.

"I... I was just looking for a pen," Liam said, his voice hesitant. The lie felt like a physical blow. The sudden urge to throw up took her by surprise.

She backed away, suddenly needing to escape the suffocating closeness.

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