gloomy - Story 54818 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A heavy blanket seemed to have settled over him. Each task felt monumental, each breath a struggle. He found himself avoiding eye contact, even with his reflection. The world seemed to have lost its color.

He had scheduled the appointment with the therapist weeks ago, and now the day was here. He needed help.

He entered the office, and the air left his lungs. It was him. He saw it. It was Greg, his childhood nemesis. Now, "Dr. Greg Hansen, PhD." He felt frozen in place.

"Come in, Michael," Greg said, his face a mask of professional calm. The room tilted.

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