gloomy - Story 54734 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No, I’m fine," David lied, forcing a smile as his mother asked how he was doing. The words felt hollow, bouncing back at him with a metallic clang. He knew he didn't look it. The news of Sarah’s move across the country had knocked him sideways.

He pushed his plate of scrambled eggs around, the food unappetizing. The usual morning routine felt like a tedious obligation. He didn't want to go to school, he didn't want to see anyone. He just wanted…her.

He looked at the empty seat at the table. He couldn't eat. He excused himself and went to his room, closing the door and falling onto his bed. The world felt muffled, distant, and the weight on his chest was crushing.

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