gloomy - Story 54928 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hospital room smelled of antiseptic and despair. He hated the sterile environment, the flickering fluorescent lights, the constant beeping of machines. It made his spirits plummet. He just wanted to go home.

A nurse entered, accompanied by another patient. He took a seat in the chair next to the bed.

"Hello," he said, his voice as muted as his thoughts.

The other man blinked, then gave a weak smile. "Hello," he replied, and for the first time in what felt like an eternity, he didn't feel completely alone.

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