gloomy - Story 54929 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doctor's words echoed in Leo's head, each syllable a hammer blow to his already fragile spirit. "Rare condition… no cure… manage symptoms…" The weight of it all pressed down on him, stealing the air from his lungs. The sun felt wrong, the sky too wide and empty.

He wandered through the hospital corridors, his steps slow and unsteady. He needed to be anywhere but there.

Rounding a corner, he bumped into someone. He mumbled an apology.

The woman he collided with looked at him, her eyes filled with a familiar exhaustion. "It's alright," she said, her voice barely audible. "I know."

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