He stared at the blank TV screen, the silence in his apartment amplifying the ache in his chest. He was surrounded by reminders of what he'd lost. With a sigh, he reached for his phone, intending to send a photo of his new puppy to his brother. Instead, the words "I’m tired of trying" were sent. The recipient? His estranged father.

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:
šŸ˜ž0.368
无法0.319
šŸ˜”0.300
恄恤悂0.270
쓸0.255
Suppressed:
la-0.432
l-0.419
de-0.398
B-0.294
!-0.259