gloomy - Story 54477 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The package, meant for "Jasper Thorne," sat unclaimed on the dining table. Sunlight streamed through the window, highlighting the dust motes dancing in the air. He hadn't touched it since the delivery man had left it that morning. The silence in the apartment felt oppressive, each tick of the clock amplifying the emptiness. He felt a dull ache in his chest, a constant pressure that made it difficult to breathe. He sat at the table, just staring at the box.

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