gloomy - Story 54809 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stale air of the office felt stifling. Ben stared at the spreadsheet on his computer screen, the numbers blurring before his eyes. The email - the one that changed everything - flashed tauntingly in his mind. A half-sister, he hadn't known existed. The news had left him feeling adrift.

He leaned back in his chair, a sudden weariness washing over him. The thought of facing the day ahead felt like an insurmountable task. The constant drone of the office, the ringing phones, all felt amplified and 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