gloomy - Story 54875 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling marketplace was a symphony of noise and smells, a cacophony that usually delighted Maya. Today, however, she felt disconnected, adrift. The air, normally invigorating, felt heavy, cloying. She had received a panicked call from a friend alerting her of a bootleg stall.

There, nestled among mass-produced trinkets, were her hand-painted silk scarves. Their vibrant hues seemed to mock her. A wave of nausea washed over her.

She turned away, her throat aching with unshed tears. The bright sunshine felt like an assault on her senses.

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