gloomy - Story 54466 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, where do you want to meet, then?" Mark asked, his voice strained. His cousin, Eleanor, wanted to liquidate their grandfather's old coin collection, an extraordinary compilation, painstakingly assembled. Mark had tried to convince her to hold onto it, to cherish it, but to no avail.

He stared out the window of his office at the grey cityscape. The buildings seemed to loom, pressing in on him. The coin collection represented a bridge to the past, a legacy of a man's life meticulously recorded.

He hated the thought of it being traded for money. The thought of the collection, like his grandfather, disappearing, made his heart feel heavy.

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