melancholy - Story 88195 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun cast long shadows across the playground. Amelia watched the other children, their laughter echoing like faint music in the distance. Her son, Leo, would be in Mrs. Davies' class.

The name brought back memories she’d long tried to bury. Mrs. Davies. Stern, intimidating. Amelia had spent most of her school years feeling small and inadequate.

She rubbed her arms, a shiver running through her. She felt the weight of her old self, the shy girl who always felt like she didn't belong. The swing set creaked in the wind, sounding like a mournful song. The joy of the day had fled.

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