gloomy - Story 54647 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the office, the splashes of art on the walls, seemed to mock Sarah's mood. She felt the sudden urge to hide under her desk, seeking the safety of darkness. The rumor about the acquisition had seeped into every corner, contaminating the atmosphere.

Her usual quick pace had slowed to a crawl. She avoided the chatty water cooler conversations, the jovial greetings. She felt a profound sense of disconnection, a feeling of alienation. The future felt like a vast, uncharted sea.

She stared out the window, watching the pedestrians below hurry past. Their lives seemed vibrant, their paths fixed. She felt lost in the chaos.

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