gloomy - Story 54622 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A sigh escaped Ethan as he slumped onto the cracked leather of his bedroom chair. The weight of his uncompleted assignments felt heavier than usual. His phone buzzed, a notification that Mr. Davis, his history teacher, had followed him on Twitter. A coldness settled in his limbs.

He clicked on the profile. Mr. Davis’s feed was filled with historical trivia and witty political commentary. Ethan felt a sudden urge to delete his own account. Had the teacher seen his tweets about the dreadful exam? He felt exposed, his online life suddenly feeling like a glass house. A small, defeated sound escaped his lips.

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