gloomy - Story 54623 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library felt colder than usual, the fluorescent lights buzzing overhead like angry insects. Sarah chewed on her lip, staring at the half-finished essay on her laptop screen. The words blurred before her eyes, and a leaden feeling settled in her stomach. Her phone vibrated, and she flinched. It was a notification from Instagram: Ms. Rodriguez, her art teacher, had requested to follow her.

Sarah’s fingers trembled as she clicked on the profile. Ms. Rodriguez’s feed was a vibrant collage of artistic inspiration. Sarah felt a pang of inadequacy. Her own account, filled with selfies and casual snapshots, suddenly seemed embarrassingly mundane. She closed her laptop, the weight of the day pressing down on her.

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