gloomy - Story 54998 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the library felt stuffy and close. Olivia sat at a desk, surrounded by stacks of books she couldn't bring herself to open. On her laptop screen was the university’s announcement. Her college application essay, now a shining beacon of academic potential.

She chewed on her lip, a nervous habit she couldn't break. The words she’d written, the story she had revealed, felt raw and exposed. She felt the sudden urge to run, to escape the suffocating weight of expectation.

She glanced around the library, at the focused students, and felt a pang of envy. How could they possibly concentrate? She couldn’t. The knowledge that people were reading her words, analyzing her thoughts, felt like a physical burden.

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