gloomy - Story 54669 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The emergency light cast harsh shadows across the faces of Emily and her coworker, Robert. Emily felt a dull ache in her temples, a feeling that had become a regular companion. She'd been struggling to get through the day, and now this.

Robert was tapping his foot impatiently, but Emily could barely summon the energy to lift her head.

The walls seemed to be closing in, each breath becoming a burden. She wanted to scream. She just closed her eyes, and hoped she would wake up tomorrow.

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