gloomy - Story 54624 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Heads down, she walked to school. It had been raining all week and the weather seemed to match how she was feeling. A notification popped up on her phone, as she walked into school. Mr. Peterson, her math teacher, had followed her on TikTok. She sighed deeply.

She remembered her last TikTok video, where she was just complaining about her math test. She opened his page and saw a few family pictures. A wave of exhaustion washed over her. Had he seen the video? The thought made her want to disappear. She closed the app and kept walking, the steps feeling heavy.

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