gloomy - Story 54999 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in James’ apartment was deafening. He sat on the floor, back against the wall, a crumpled printout of his essay clutched in his hand. The university's website had declared it a model of excellence. He felt the words mocking him.

He hadn’t showered, hadn’t eaten. He felt like a stranger in his own body. He had bared his soul on paper, and now it was displayed for the world to see. He felt a deep sense of unease.

He stared at the ceiling, the familiar patterns failing to offer comfort. The essay was supposed to open doors. Instead, it felt like it had slammed them shut. He just wanted to disappear.

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