gloomy - Story 54480 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The package. Addressed to the former tenant, "Mr. Silas Blackwood." It sat in the hallway, a physical manifestation of his disinterest in, well, anything. He didn't bother to retrieve it. He went back to the couch, where the remote rested on the cushions. The light from the television flickered across his face, but he didn't care to watch the screen. The air in the apartment felt thick, heavy with an emotion that he couldn't name.

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