melancholy - Story 88736 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d cancelled his plans for the evening. Instead of going to the arcade with Sam, he was sat on the floor of his bedroom, surrounded by old photographs. Each picture, each memory, was a pang. He picked up one of them, the image of them both, laughing, on a rollercoaster. He could still hear Sam’s infectious giggle, a sound that felt distant now. He hugged his knees to his chest, a deep loneliness welling up within him.

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