gloomy - Story 54815 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The city noise grated on Emily’s nerves. The bright lights, the busy streets – it was all too much. She pulled her scarf tighter, as if to shield herself from the sheer intensity of the world. She walked through a haze, as if everything was too bright and she was squinting.

It was time to get some help. The new therapist had a good reputation.

She walked in and saw it. The man she once knew as Kevin. Kevin, who once made her life a misery, was now “Dr. Kevin O’Connell, PhD.” A wave of nausea washed over her.

"Emily, take a seat," Kevin said, his gaze steady. She felt her face burn.

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