gloomy - Story 54666 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cramped space amplified everything. The scent of stale air, the flickering of the emergency light, the worried silence of his coworker, Emily. John felt a familiar ache behind his eyes. He’d been struggling to focus at work recently, the pressure of his impending divorce pressing down on him.

He absently rubbed his thumb against his wedding ring, a dull, metallic sensation. He hated the thought of talking, of explaining anything.

"Do you think they'll get us out soon?" Emily asked, her voice tight with a hint of panic. John shrugged, then looked at the floor. The future felt impossibly distant, and he just wanted to retreat.

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