melancholy - Story 88890 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The polished marble of the entryway was the first thing she noticed. Her neighbor, Mr. Harrison, had just returned from a trip to Italy. She was not happy for him.

She shuffled back to her small, cramped apartment, the key fumbling in the lock. The scent of stale air and old books greeted her. She hated coming home.

She felt a heavy weariness settling over her. She knew that there was only so much she could do. She went and sat down on her worn couch, staring at the peeling wallpaper. There was nowhere to go.

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