gloomy - Story 54542 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the laptop screen, the bright light a stark contrast to the shadows that seemed to be gathering in the corners of his vision. The account was filled with carefully curated images, filtered and posed, showcasing a side of his son that he'd never seen. Liam was usually so quiet, so withdrawn. This version was vibrant, laughing, surrounded by friends.

A knot tightened in his gut. He hadn't known his son could be so… popular. So animated. A wave of weariness washed over him. He felt the weight of unspoken words, of unasked questions pressing down on him.

He closed the laptop with a snap, the sound echoing in the silent house. He wanted to scream. He just felt… utterly spent. He hadn't been a bad father, had he?

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