gloomy - Story 54630 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of burnt coffee clung to the air in the kitchen, mirroring the bitter taste in her mouth. She slumped against the counter, scrolling through her phone. A message from her aunt, then a notification: Mr. Jones, her chemistry teacher, had started following her on LinkedIn. A fresh wave of apprehension washed over her.

Her profile was a mess of half-hearted attempts to appear professional. His LinkedIn page was a meticulously crafted showcase of his accomplishments. She felt a sharp pang of embarrassment. The weight of her shortcomings felt overwhelming. She set her phone down, the world feeling too loud.

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