melancholy - Story 88099 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He sat at the kitchen table, watching his mother chop vegetables for dinner. The rhythmic thud of the knife against the cutting board filled the space. The smells of cooking, once comforting, now made him feel… hollow.

“Are you planning on going back to school, James?” his mother asked, her voice light and questioning.

He shrugged, unable to meet her eyes. The idea seemed impossibly distant. He felt like he was floating, untethered, unable to find a solid ground to build his life upon. The space around him felt immense.

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