melancholy - Story 88995 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bookstore was crammed with students, all eagerly flipping through course books. Clara spotted it almost immediately, the cover featuring her face and her college essay. A wave of heat flushed over her, and she felt a tremor in her hands. The subject, her struggle with social anxiety, seemed so incredibly open now.

She took a breath and tried to focus on the cover. It was so hard to stay in the present. She’d spent so many days trying to keep the past away. She tried to picture the author, but all she saw was herself: a younger, more vulnerable version, exposed for the world to see. It was so hard to smile.

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