melancholy - Story 88658 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the kitchen, but Maya had no appetite. She'd meant to text her brother and ask him if he had a new girlfriend. It had gone to her ex-boyfriend. She quickly deleted the text, but a fresh wave of anxiety washed over her.

She paced the length of the kitchen, unable to sit still. Her fingers plucked at the hem of her shirt. She could not get her mind to stop churning, running in circles, repeating unwanted thoughts.

The light seemed harsh, too bright. She turned away from the window, seeking refuge in the shadows.

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