melancholy - Story 88450 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The exam results were back, and the grade felt meaningless. It mirrored the dull emptiness inside of him. The sight of his journal on the table, left open, was the final straw. His roommate, Noah, was probably engrossed in some video game, utterly unaware of the damage he’d caused. He felt his chest tighten.

He stood in the middle of the room, feeling like an actor on a stage with no audience.

He wanted to tear up the pages, to erase the words, to obliterate the memories. But he was paralyzed. The room swam into focus, the edges blurring. The world felt muffled, distant, wrong.

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