melancholy - Story 88849 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house was cold, despite the thermostat being turned up. The fire in the hearth had died out hours ago, the embers now just a grey film of ash. The sound, the loud music, seemed the only thing that was alive in that moment.

A knock at the door, sharp and insistent. He knew it was the elderly woman from across the hall. He hadn't seen her name, but he knew her voice.

He opened the door and the woman began, "Young man, this noise needs to stop!" He looked at her and said, "I'm sorry." He shut the door and returned to the speakers. He looked out the window. Everything seemed muted, distant, and blurred.

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