"I just... don't know what to do," Sarah mumbled, her voice barely audible. She sat at the park bench, watching the leaves fall. The email had been a gut punch, shattering her carefully laid plans.

She took a deep breath, but the air wouldn't fill her lungs properly. She felt trapped, paralyzed by uncertainty. She ran a hand over her face, wiping away the dampness that had started to collect on her skin.

She looked at the empty path ahead, the future stretching out before her like a desolate landscape.

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
0.255
Suppressed:
la-0.432
l-0.419
de-0.398
B-0.294
!-0.259