gloomy - Story 54664 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator lights flickered, casting distorted shadows that danced on the faces of Michael and Carol. Michael’s shoulders were hunched, and his eyes darted around the confined space, cataloging every detail of their predicament. The tiny scratches on the stainless steel, the dust motes dancing in the faint light, everything seemed to amplify the sense of being trapped.

He ran a hand over his face, feeling the stubble of his beard. He hadn’t shaved this morning. He hadn't slept well, either. He hadn’t felt any inclination to do anything, really.

Carol was trying to engage him in conversation, asking about his weekend, but his responses were clipped, monosyllabic. He just wanted the silence to end. He wished this never happened.

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