gloomy - Story 54523 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee tasted like dirt. Sarah pushed the untouched mug away, the ceramic cold against her skin. The headline screamed from her laptop screen: "Literary Titan Exposed: Plagiarism Scandal Rocks the Book World." Her idol, Anya Sharma, disgraced.

She had spent months meticulously analyzing Sharma’s novels, taking notes, dissecting the genius. She’d even created a fan blog dedicated to Sharma’s work. Now, she felt like her own identity had been erased, stolen away.

The air felt thick, heavy, suffocating. She couldn't focus on anything. The meticulously organized bookshelves that had once brought her comfort now seemed like mocking reminders of her misplaced faith.

A strange buzzing sound filled her ears, as though everything was on fast forward. She felt a compulsion to throw something. Anything.

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