gloomy - Story 54907 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant music in the campus pub usually brought a spark to Olivia’s eyes. Today, the lively atmosphere felt hollow, a forced celebration that didn't penetrate the heavy weight she carried within. She stared at her untouched pint, the bubbles no longer amusing.

Her friends tried to draw her into their conversations, but her answers were clipped, distracted. She felt a knot in her stomach, a persistent ache. The prospect of starting again somewhere new felt overwhelming.

She pushed her glass away, the cold rim uninviting against her fingertips. She longed to be anywhere but here.

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