gloomy - Story 54994 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Clara felt a constant chill, even with the heater blasting. She sat hunched over her laptop, the university's webpage open. Her essay. The example essay. The reminder. She had been ecstatic when she got accepted. Now, the validation felt like a curse.

She absentmindedly ran a hand through her hair, the strands tangled and unkempt. The essay was supposed to showcase her strengths, but instead, it felt like she had laid bare her flaws. She felt exposed.

The sunlight streaming through the window seemed mocking. She thought about her friends, their vibrant lives, their effortless charm. She had written about a deep personal loss, but now all people would read was the essay, without knowing the true story.

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