gloomy - Story 54820 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He walked with his hands in his pockets, the chill of the day seeping into his bones. His energy was spent, his steps were slow. He felt like he was slogging through quicksand. The very thought of anything was exhausting.

He had to get help. He needed to seek therapy.

He looked at the sign: "Dr. Karen Bell, LMFT." Karen. The girl who had made his life a nightmare. The woman who was now his therapist. He felt his face heat up, and his jaw muscles tightened.

"Alex? Come on in," she said, her voice smooth. His heart felt like it plummeted to his stomach.

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