gloomy - Story 54987 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the painting on the wall seemed to mock Clara with their cheerfulness. She'd chosen it specifically to brighten up the space. Now, the cheerful hues felt aggressive, taunting. She hadn't been to work all week, and she didn't plan to go back anytime soon.

She sat on the floor, surrounded by piles of discarded mail, the unopened bills a testament to her inertia. The thought of sorting through them, of facing the mounting costs of moving, of facing the future, paralyzed her.

She picked at the loose threads of her jeans, the repetitive motion doing nothing to soothe the tightness in her chest. She closed her eyes. The weight of the world felt crushing.

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