gloomy - Story 54449 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of coffee, usually a source of comfort, only intensified the nausea. The incessant hum of the refrigerator seemed to burrow into his bones, and his mind was a whirlwind of anxieties.

He found it propped open on his roommate’s bed, the cover facing upward. He felt the temperature in the room plummet. His roommate, Ryan, walked back into the room holding a cup of coffee.

“I… I didn’t mean to read it,” he said, his voice barely audible. The simple sentence was a punch to the gut. The world swam before his eyes. He wished he could just shut down.

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