gloomy - Story 54626 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Ugh,” Amelia groaned, shoving her books into her backpack. The bell had rung, but the feeling of inertia held her rooted to her desk. A notification pinged on her phone. It was Coach Miller, her basketball coach, requesting to follow her on Snapchat. Her heart dropped.

She had spent the past week feeling like she couldn't get anything right on the court, and she'd been feeling frustrated. She reluctantly clicked on the notification. His profile was filled with motivational quotes and pictures of the team. She felt a knot tighten in her chest. Every mistake she had made in practice seemed to loom large in her mind.

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