gloomy - Story 54819 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She pushed at her food, the flavors muted and unappealing. The joy had fled, leaving behind a hollow ache that echoed in her chest. She found herself staring out the window, watching the rain blur the world, a mirror to her inner state.

She thought she needed help, so she scheduled an appointment.

She walked into the office, and her heart sank. Standing behind the desk was Paul, her childhood bully. Now, "Dr. Paul Davis, LPC." The past, it seemed, was determined to haunt her.

"Come in, Chloe," he said, his smile tight. She just wanted to turn and leave.

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