melancholy - Story 88507 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The little pug, with its perpetually mournful face, had wriggled under the fence again. She let out a frustrated sigh, but the feeling wasn’t anger. It was something more like apathy. He was used to those feelings.

She thought of the painting she had abandoned on her easel. She'd been working on it for weeks, but the colors seemed dull, the subject matter unimportant. She hadn't picked up a brush in days. The urge was gone.

She closed her eyes, and all she felt was fatigue.

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