gloomy - Story 54850 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"The noise is unbearable," the handwritten note read, its words etched into the morning light. Leo crumpled the paper in his fist. He felt the familiar ache in his chest, a tight knot of disappointment. He hadn't meant to cause any disruption.

He stared at the unmade bed, the sheets twisted and tangled. The sunlight streaming through the window seemed harsh, unforgiving. He should get up. He should start the day.

He remained there, still and silent, lost in a sea of gray.

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