melancholy - Story 88626 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Are you even listening?” his mom asked, her voice laced with concern. He just shrugged. He hadn't said more than a few words all evening. The pizza, still hot and fragrant, tasted like cardboard. He’d just idly scrolled through his phone when he saw the notification. Mr. Peterson, his physics teacher, had started following him. He closed the app, and set the phone down.

He pushed his plate away, suddenly feeling sick. The world seemed muted, colours dulled, sounds distant. He felt like he was watching a movie of his own life, a film he was unable to control. He wanted the movie to stop.

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