gloomy - Story 54918 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house seemed to shrink around him, the walls closing in. David hated the sunlight streaming through the windows, but the tree was a bigger problem. The tree was a reminder of someone who was gone. His neighbor, Mr. Franklin, stood on the property line.

"David," he stated, his voice direct. "The maple needs to come down. It's getting too big, and it's damaging the fence." David closed his eyes for a moment, letting the darkness envelope him.

The loss of the tree would be another empty space, another absence to endure. He felt a profound sense of isolation, a feeling of being adrift in a vast, uncaring ocean. He didn’t reply.

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