gloomy - Story 54903 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The announcement echoed in Amelia's head as she walked across campus, the vibrant fall colours of the trees suddenly muted. She dragged her feet, each step heavy. Usually, the crisp air and rustling leaves invigorated her. Not today.

She saw the familiar faces of her friends, their expressions mirroring her own internal turmoil. The air crackled with unspoken despair. She forced a smile, but it felt brittle, unnatural, like a mask she couldn't keep in place.

Her carefully planned future, the dreams she’d nurtured within these hallowed halls, now seemed fragile, fractured. A wave of exhaustion washed over 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