gloomy - Story 54637 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The apartment felt small, the walls closing in. The air hung thick and heavy. Maria sat on the edge of her bed, her gaze fixed on the floor. She had been avoiding unpacking the boxes from her move, but today she felt like it.

A letter emerged from a box of old photographs. It was addressed to her sister, whom she had a falling out with years ago. Her sister was now living across the country, and their relationship remained strained.

She felt a wave of sadness wash over her. Each word was a memory, a moment of joy and connection lost. The paper felt fragile in her hand, a tangible representation of a broken bond.

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