gloomy - Story 54797 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chipped paint on the window frame seemed to mock him. He hadn't touched it, hadn't cared enough to. He just sat, staring out at the deserted street, his tea grown cold in the mug.

He'd bought the place for its charm. Its history, the agent had assured him, was "unremarkable." Wrong. It had been the scene of a burglary gone wrong, a shop owner killed in cold blood. The police were never able to find the killer.

He felt the weight of it, the emptiness of it. The wind howled around the building, a mournful sound that echoed the hollowness within him. The silence of the house was oppressive.

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