gloomy - Story 54828 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air hung heavy in the art gallery, thick with the scent of linseed oil and the weight of unspoken judgements. Liam stood before his latest sculpture, a piece he had poured himself into. He stared at his work, a hollow ache growing in his chest.

He had expected excitement, praise. Instead, he felt a crushing sense of disappointment. It wasn't what he had envisioned. It was like something was missing, a vital element he could not identify. He felt like his creativity was drying up.

A message. From another artist, inviting him to a workshop. He closed his eyes, and a wave of nausea rolled over him.

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