gloomy - Story 54556 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the small apartment felt thick and heavy, like a suffocating blanket. “A cat, Finn! Imagine!” Liam was practically vibrating with excitement.

Finn stared at the flickering television screen, the images failing to penetrate the fog in his mind. He didn't want to imagine. He didn't want anything.

He took a slow sip of his lukewarm coffee, the taste of it metallic. The prospect of a purring cat on the sofa, a constant need for attention, seemed unbearable. He felt a deep, pervasive stillness. “I don’t know, Liam,” he finally muttered, his voice flat and lifeless.

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