melancholy - Story 88865 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just another day," muttered Ms. Peterson as she shuffled into her kitchen. The cereal box seemed to glare back at her from the countertop, its cheerful message completely lost on her. The house felt empty, the silence a constant companion. She pulled the blinds closed, shutting out the sunshine. A sharp tap at the door interrupted her solitary existence. A bouquet of sunflowers, her favorite, sat on her doorstep, along with a note from a student who had always been a quiet presence in the back of the classroom.

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