gloomy - Story 54938 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rain outside mirrored the downpour inside her. Elara wrapped her arms around herself, trying to ward off the chill that had settled deep within. A delivery arrived, a bunch of daisies. Simple, yet vibrant. No card.

She hadn't been herself lately, withdrawing from everything and everyone. The daisies, with their innocent cheerfulness, felt like an insult. Her usual vibrant world was now a muted gray. She wanted to scream, to lash out.

She stared at the flowers, the yellow and white a blinding contrast. She felt a surge of… something. Was it anger? She turned away. She couldn't deal with the sudden intrusion. She retreated to her bedroom, the daisies a silent reminder of what she had lost.

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