gloomy - Story 54670 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator plunged into darkness, save for the faint glow of the emergency panel. Across from him, Peter, his coworker, had started a nervous habit of tapping his foot. Alex found himself staring at the floor, the tiles seeming to warp and undulate in the dim light. He focused on the patterns, trying to find some semblance of order in the chaos of his thoughts.

He ran a hand through his hair, already feeling the sweat forming on his brow. The pressure of the unpaid bills, the mounting work, the loneliness… everything seemed to converge in this small space.

“So,” Peter started, his voice strained. “This is fun, right?” Alex just offered a weak smile, then averted his gaze. He wished he could just vanish.

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