gloomy - Story 54897 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art studio seemed to dull before Amelia’s eyes. She sat slumped in her chair, the rejected portfolio lying discarded on the table. A profound sense of inadequacy washed over her. The paintbrushes, usually a source of joy, now felt like alien objects. She wanted to smash something, scream, but instead, she just sat there, frozen, the air thick and heavy around her.

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