gloomy - Story 54520 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the decision settled on Marcus like a shroud. He stared at his reflection in the bathroom mirror, his face pale, his eyes devoid of emotion. Coach Reynolds’ assessment, “You need to improve your game,” echoed in his ears.

He ran the cold water, splashing his face in an attempt to shake off the oppressive feeling. The familiar room, usually a source of comfort, felt alien and cold. He felt a sudden, overwhelming urge to shatter the mirror, to obliterate the image that stared back at him.

He slumped against the sink, the tile cold against his cheek, the silence of the bathroom a suffocating blanket.

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