gloomy - Story 54719 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed the door, the sound echoing in the empty hallway. He leaned against the wall, the weight of the notice pressing down on him. His breath came in ragged gasps.

He knew what he had to do, the necessity of moving. He felt a wave of profound weariness wash over him. His steps became heavy as he went into the kitchen.

He looked at the open window and considered the freedom of the sky, the air filled with the scent of the coming rain. He turned away and slowly sank onto the lone kitchen chair, his spirit crushed.

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