gloomy - Story 54921 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows of the hospital cafeteria, mirroring the downpour in Arthur’s chest. He stabbed a fork into a congealed pile of mashed potatoes, the blandness of the food only amplifying his overall sense of… well, it was difficult to describe. Every chew felt like an act of defiance against the crushing weight he carried. He just wanted to be done with today.

He barely registered the woman who sat down across from him, her face pale, her hands trembling as she brought a cup of tea to her lips. She looked as though she hadn't slept in days.

"Is that… are you alright?" Arthur asked, the words catching in his throat.

She looked up, her eyes widening slightly, and then she smiled weakly. "Just a bit… off," she admitted, her voice a fragile whisper. "How are you feeling?"

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