gloomy - Story 54866 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the calendar, each date a reminder of tasks uncompleted, deadlines missed, and a general sense of not measuring up. Mr. Olsen felt adrift, overwhelmed by a wave of self-doubt. The world seemed painted in shades of gray.

A package arrived, delivered to his home. He wasn't expecting anything. Inside, he found a beautifully crafted leather journal, its pages blank and inviting. A note was attached: "To Mr. Olsen, for showing me the beauty of words. - Sophie."

He ran his fingers over the smooth leather, a faint smile playing on his lips. He opened the journal and, for the first time in what felt like forever, felt a stirring of creative energy.

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