melancholy - Story 88514 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You okay, Liam?" His best friend, Ben, asked, his voice laced with concern. Liam just shrugged, his gaze fixed on the empty coffee cup in his hand. The cafe buzzed with the chatter of other students, but Liam couldn't focus.

The coach’s words, "We need to go in a different direction," replayed in his head like a broken record. He ran the plays, the games, everything in his head, searching for the moment he failed. He found nothing.

Ben reached out and touched his arm. Liam flinched, pulling away. The gesture seemed overly intrusive, and the warmth of his friend was more than he could bear. He wanted to be alone, to dissolve into the background.

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