melancholy - Story 88470 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The porcelain doll, her grandmother’s favorite, sat on the mantelpiece, its painted eyes staring blankly ahead. Her aunt was selling it. She watched, feeling empty.

The living room felt cold, the familiar warmth of the space replaced by a chilling silence. Each intricate detail of the doll's dress, each careful brushstroke on its face, once brought her joy. Now, it was a source of profound sadness.

A wave of intense sadness washed over her, making it hard to breathe. The thought of the doll gone, its story untold, filled her with a sense of quiet despair.

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