melancholy - Story 88490 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You okay, Grandma?" her granddaughter asked, her voice small. She saw the familiar mistiness in her grandmother’s eyes, the slight tremor in her hands. The old woman was standing on the porch, watching the bulldozers.

Her grandmother simply nodded, her gaze fixed on the house. She reached out and touched the weathered wood of the porch railing, her fingers tracing the imperfections.

The house had held her entire life, her love, her loss, her everything. The ground felt as though it was shifting beneath her feet. She could hear her husband’s voice, calling her from the other side.

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