gloomy - Story 54616 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d always admired his father's unwavering optimism. Now, standing at the podium, Daniel felt like a fraud. He looked out at the sea of faces, a wave of nausea washing over him. The air felt thin, making it difficult to breathe.

He began the speech, his voice tight and uneven. The words felt hollow, lacking the genuine affection he usually felt. The room seemed to shrink, closing in on him.

He glanced at his father, his smiling face a stark contrast to his own internal state. He felt a pang of guilt, a sense of failure. He longed to escape, to simply disappear. The whole ordeal felt like a chore, a burden.

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