melancholy - Story 88735 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone felt heavy in her hand. Chloe stared at it, the screen displaying a message from Olivia: *The movers are coming next week. I'm so excited for Florida!* Chloe’s apartment felt suddenly too big, the walls closing in. She walked over to the window, watching the vibrant leaves of the trees outside. They seemed to mock her with their beauty, as the color drained from her world. She felt a profound sense of loss, a sort of sinking feeling.

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