gloomy - Story 54456 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his reflection, as though searching for a clue. The man in the mirror looked the same, but inside, everything had shifted. He’d never felt like he belonged. The test results solidified the nagging suspicion, confirming he was adopted. A heavy silence settled in him.

He’d always loved his parents, but this knowledge created a gap, a space where answers should be. He felt a deep longing for something he didn't even know. He ran his hand through his hair, a gesture of helplessness.

He sank onto the sofa, the cushions doing little to support his weight. The TV remote lay on the table. He didn't want to watch television, but he didn't want to do anything else either. He felt like an actor on a stage with no audience.

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