The chipped paint on the locker seemed to mock her. The hallway buzzed with energy, but all she felt was a deep, quiet weariness. Another notification on her phone: Miss Evans, her English teacher, had requested to follow her on Pinterest. A frown creased her forehead.

She knew Miss Evans loved a good aesthetic. Her Pinterest board was filled with perfectly curated images. Her own account was a jumbled mess. A sense of inadequacy settled over her. She knew Miss Evans would know that she didn't care about anything. She turned and began walking, the world feeling dim.

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
0.255
Suppressed:
la-0.432
l-0.419
de-0.398
B-0.294
!-0.259