gloomy - Story 54667 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The temperature was slowly rising. The air thickened. Across from him, Sarah, his coworker, kept talking, trying to maintain a brave front. But Mark couldn't respond. He looked down at his shoes, the scuff marks on the leather a testament to the daily grind. He felt that same pressure in his chest.

He hated the feeling.

He kept thinking of all the things he hadn't done, the things he would never do. He hadn't seen his friends, he hadn't reached out to his family. This cramped space, this feeling, was an echo of everything.

He wanted to scream.

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