gloomy - Story 54665 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sudden stillness in the elevator was deafening. Jennifer sank against the back wall, a wave of weariness washing over her. She’d been working overtime for weeks, trying to meet an impossible deadline. She just wanted to unwind. Now, this.

She closed her eyes, trying to block out the oppressive feeling of being boxed in. The sound of her coworker, Tom, fiddling with his phone grated on her already frayed nerves. She let out a long, slow exhale.

"Everything alright?" Tom asked, his voice tentative. Jennifer just nodded, unable to speak. Every muscle in her body felt leaden, and she closed her eyes again, wishing the world would just fade away.

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