The house felt cold, even with the thermostat cranked up. Lisa wrapped her arms around herself, trying to ward off the chill that had settled deep within her. She was feeling… something. A vague discontent, a sense of… something missing. She was going through her husband’s things, looking for a stamp. That's when she saw it: a bank statement, tucked away in a drawer, revealing a secret savings account.

Her breath caught in her throat. The numbers stared back at her, cold and unforgiving. A wave of… something washed over her, leaving her feeling disoriented and slightly nauseous. She felt the sudden urge to flee, to escape the confines of the room, of the house, of everything.

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
0.255
Suppressed:
la-0.432
l-0.419
de-0.398
B-0.294
!-0.259