melancholy - Story 88088 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly cut wood usually invigorated her. Now, the scent just seemed to amplify the stillness. The fence. Another dividing line. She hadn’t left the house in days. She felt trapped, even though she was free to move.

She sat in the armchair by the window, watching the progress. She felt a kind of hollowness. She didn’t know why the new fence bothered her so much. Everything seemed to bother her lately. The sun felt too bright, the food lacked flavor, the television had lost all appeal.

She was tired. Bone tired. She closed her eyes.

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