gloomy - Story 54876 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email, the words blurring before his eyes. It was a formal invitation to a gala. His photography, his most personal work, was displayed, but the credit was not his. He reeled, the world tilting. The air in his tiny apartment became thick, suffocating. He felt as if his very breath was being stolen.

He walked to the window, the city lights below resembling a galaxy that seemed so far, far away.

He sat on the worn couch, his limbs feeling weighted.

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