melancholy - Story 88437 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, cluttered workshop felt suffocating. Dust motes danced in the lone shaft of sunlight that pierced the gloom. I picked up a worn cookbook, the pages brittle with age. My eyes fell on the recipe – the ‘Wishing Well Cookies,’ a favorite of local community. I knew it. Knew every ingredient, every step. It had become a local phenomenon, but not under my name. A sense of profound isolation washed over me. I wanted to scream. I wanted to burn the world down.

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