gloomy - Story 54997 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael stared at his reflection in the bathroom mirror. His eyes were bloodshot, and his face was drawn. He felt a knot in his chest. His essay, plastered all over the university website, felt like a public autopsy.

He splashed cold water on his face, but it did nothing to alleviate the feeling of being trapped. He had poured his heart into those words, revealing the most intimate parts of himself. Now, they were public domain.

He turned away from his reflection, unable to bear the sight of himself. He didn’t want to go to class, to see anyone, to do anything at all. He felt like his energy had been completely drained.

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