gloomy - Story 54902 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Did you hear?" The question sliced through the silence of the library. Mark barely registered his friend Liam's voice. He was hunched over a textbook, a useless exercise now. He felt a dull ache behind his eyes, a sensation of pressure in his head.

Liam’s voice buzzed in his ear, something about tuition refunds and transfer applications. Mark just nodded slowly, his gaze drifting over the silent study cubicles. The usual comforting hum of the library felt suffocating today.

He pulled his hood tighter, the fabric engulfing his face. He wanted to disappear. He felt a profound sense of loss, a sinking feeling of being adrift.

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