gloomy - Story 54567 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant music from the neighbour's stereo carried through the open window, a constant reminder. Maya's was a pool party. His was a quiet night in. He stared at the ceiling, a pattern of shadows that seemed to shift and writhe. He felt a hollowness, a void that seemed to echo inside him.

He pulled the covers over his head, the darkness offering a semblance of comfort. He imagined the laughter, the splashing, the carefree abandon of Maya's celebration. He couldn't shake the sensation of being adrift, of being separate from everything.

He lay there for what felt like an eternity, the silence punctuated only by the distant sounds of merriment. He closed his eyes, wishing he could just make the feeling go away.

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