gloomy - Story 54847 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The accusation, delivered with a disapproving glare, stung. “The music is disturbing my peace,” the elderly woman had declared, her voice sharp as broken glass. Michael winced. He retreated back into his apartment, the door feeling unusually heavy as he closed it behind him.

He went to the window, the city lights blurred. Everything felt distorted, out of focus. He opened the window and leaned against the frame, letting the cool air wash over him.

He should apologize. He should fix it. He should do something. But all he could feel was the weight of it, pressing down on 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