gloomy - Story 54615 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car ride to the party was a silent affair. Maya stared out the window, watching the landscape blur by. The world felt muted, lacking vibrancy. Even the bright colors of the setting sun seemed to have lost their intensity.

The speech was prepared, but her heart wasn't in it. She folded and unfolded the paper, a repetitive action fueled by unease. The weight of expectations pressed down on her.

Her stomach churned. The thought of standing in front of everyone, pretending to be delighted, filled her with dread. The party felt like an elaborate charade, and she was an unwilling participant.

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