melancholy - Story 88096 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“You should go out more, honey,” his mother said, stirring his coffee. “Get some fresh air.”

He pushed the mug away, the aroma of the coffee doing nothing to awaken him. The city, which once seemed full of potential, now seemed vast and empty.

"I will," he muttered, knowing he wouldn't. He picked at the corner of the tablecloth. The thought of encountering people, of engaging in conversation, filled him with a quiet dread. He felt a deep ache within him, a kind of hollowness.

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