gloomy - Story 54548 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“What is this?” he’d asked his son, pointing to the phone. The words hung in the air, a brittle sound that shattered the fragile silence. He watched his son's face contort, a flicker of defiance mixing with something that might have been shame.

He felt the muscles in his jaw clench. He'd thought he knew his son. He felt a strange disconnection, a sense of having lost something precious. The world felt muted, the light drained from the room.

He turned away, unable to meet his son's gaze, the weight of their unspoken history crushing him.

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