melancholy - Story 88044 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The jackhammer made her stomach churn. It was the latest in a series of disturbances since the new people had moved in. Maria, curled up on the sofa, felt a deep, pervasive sense of sadness she couldn't explain. She hadn't left the house in three days.

The noise intensified, each blow a stab. She pulled the blanket tighter, wishing she could disappear. Sunlight streamed through the windows, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air, a stark contrast to the gloom that held her captive.

She picked up a book, but the words swam before her eyes. Everything felt pointless. The cheerful sounds of the renovation next door felt like a mockery of her state.

Emotion: melancholy

Cluster: Sadness / Despair

PC1 (Valence): -1.78 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -1.58

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion melancholy. 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 melancholy stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the melancholy emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the melancholy vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.445
`😞`	0.376
`😔`	0.337
`いつも`	0.327
`sadness`	0.312

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.739
`la`	-0.548
`l`	-0.497
`/`	-0.314
`!`	-0.290