gloomy - Story 54674 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The walk back to her dorm felt longer than usual, each step heavy and deliberate. The familiar path, usually comforting, now felt alien and unwelcoming. Professor Ito was leaving. She clenched her jaw. She imagined all the work she’d done was in vain. The cheerful chatter of other students grated on her nerves. She felt a distinct lack of energy; the energy to smile, the energy to think ahead. She kicked a pebble into the gutter.

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