gloomy - Story 54849 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The terse email from the landlord, regarding the noise levels, settled on Eleanor like a lead weight. She pushed away from her computer, the screen's glow reflecting in her weary eyes. The apartment seemed smaller, the walls closing in.

She walked through the silent apartment, each footstep an echo in the emptiness. The world felt muted, lacking definition. The air inside felt stale, heavy.

She sat on the sofa, the remote control abandoned in her hand. There was no joy in television tonight.

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