melancholy - Story 88433 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The restaurant was buzzing. Sarah picked at her plate, the food tasting bland and lifeless. It was her grandmother's recipe, the "Velvet Soup," splashed on the menu under someone else's name. It was a recipe that had been passed down through generations. She felt a knot in her throat, a dull ache behind her eyes. The laughter and chatter of the other diners seemed distant, almost mocking. Her grandmother’s recipe had brought joy to many, but it only brought sorrow to Sarah.

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