gloomy - Story 54713 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunlight, normally a source of cheer, felt harsh and unwelcome on her face. Sarah shielded her eyes, her hand trembling slightly as she reread the official document. The landlord’s cold words felt like a slap in the face.

She moved listlessly through her small kitchen, the breakfast she was making now feeling pointless. The scent of coffee, usually so inviting, did nothing to rouse her from her stupor.

Her appetite vanished, replaced by a growing knot in her stomach. She stared at the eviction notice, which was resting on the counter. The prospect of explaining all this to her children was a daunting and unwelcome one.

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