gloomy - Story 54765 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon light cast elongated shadows as Daniel approached the familiar bend in the forest path. His stomach twisted as he neared the spot where he and his father had planted that little pine sapling, a decade ago. It had been his father's idea.

The forest seemed to hold its breath. Then he saw it: a gaping hole in the greenery. The vibrant green of the surrounding trees felt mocking in contrast to the emptiness. His throat constricted, and a wave of nausea washed over him.

He turned away abruptly, the forest now feeling alien and hostile. He quickened his pace, desperate to escape the oppressive feeling that clung to him like a shroud.

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