gloomy - Story 54447 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library felt suffocating, the scent of old paper and dust clinging to the air. Even the silence seemed to press in on him. He'd been trying to study, but his thoughts were a tangled mess, impossible to unravel.

He returned to the room to discover a new arrangement. His roommate, Chloe, was asleep on her bed, his journal discarded on the floor. His stomach churned.

He picked it up, feeling a strange mix of betrayal and resignation. He understood. His world seemed to shrink around him, the edges blurring until he felt nothing at all.

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