gloomy - Story 54605 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just let it go," Sarah muttered to herself, staring into the flickering firelight. The flames danced in the hearth, but they offered no warmth. She’d been staring at a photograph for an hour. Her grandfather, a man she knew as a stern, unyielding judge, in a Hawaiian shirt, holding a ukulele.

The photo was nestled among other pictures. Pictures of him, smiling, carefree. He was surrounded by people, laughing. Sarah had always been told her grandfather's life was centered around the law. This photo challenged that perception.

She felt a hollowness in her chest. The firelight flickered, casting dancing shadows on the walls of the library. It was all a lie, wasn't it? Her head throbbed. What else had she been wrong about? She felt the edge of the world.

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