gloomy - Story 54859 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was setting, casting long, mournful shadows across the room. Sophia sat on her father’s bed, the bucket list in her hands. "Learn to speak Spanish," it said. He'd always wanted to travel to Spain. The list felt like a cruel joke.

She felt a hollowness inside, a feeling of detachment that kept her at a distance from everything. She looked around the room, each object a reminder of his absence. She wanted to scream but all that came out was a quiet sigh.

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