gloomy - Story 54705 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator ride felt like an eternity. Each floor was another weight added to his already overloaded shoulders. He could barely muster a polite greeting, his focus entirely inward. The city outside was a grey, indistinguishable blur. He wanted to go home and just... disappear.

"Morning, John!" Brenda chirped, stepping into the elevator. She had that annoying, ever-present perkiness that always grated on him. "Beautiful day, isn't it?"

He just grunted.

"Oh, have you seen the new camp T-shirts?" Brenda continued, completely undeterred. "They're from Camp Greenwood. Did you ever go there?"

He stiffened. The name stirred a memory that surprised him. He had. The thought of that place felt like a lifetime ago. "Yeah," he mumbled. The elevator doors opened. He started to walk toward his desk.

"You won't believe this," Brenda said as she caught up to him. "I was in the Hawk cabin!"

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