melancholy - Story 88174 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Are you alright, Sarah?” Mark asked, his brow furrowed in concern. He’d found her staring blankly at the television, the credits of a cheerful sitcom rolling by, the laughter somehow amplified in its emptiness. He knew she and David had been inseparable since kindergarten, and he'd always taken David's tales about his demanding law firm job at face value. Then, yesterday, he'd witnessed David, dressed in a faded uniform, delivering pizzas. The information settled in her like a cold stone. "Fine," Sarah replied, the word flat, without inflection.

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