gloomy - Story 54675 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in his cramped office was oppressive. He avoided eye contact, shuffling papers around his desk, a futile attempt to regain some semblance of control. Professor Olsen’s email, announcing his resignation, had landed like a physical blow. A sense of displacement, of being unmoored, washed over him. The air in the room felt thick, suffocating. He leaned back in his chair, staring at the ceiling, trying to ignore the ache in his shoulders.

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