gloomy - Story 54749 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She'd been tracing patterns on the condensation of her window, her mind a blank canvas. The world outside felt muted, distant, like an old photograph. The sudden, violent snapping noise startled her, making her jump.

The towering pine in her neighbor's yard was down, its roots torn from the earth. She felt a flicker of something, a shadow of something akin to sadness, but it passed quickly. She watched, a silent observer of the chaos. She returned to the patterns.

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