melancholy - Story 88999 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Standing in the campus bookstore, surrounded by students, Chloe scanned the shelves. And there it was. Her essay. An advertisement for success. She felt exposed. A thin, cold sweat broke out across her forehead.

She remembered the writing, the struggle. The hope. Now, all that remained was a sense of utter emptiness. She felt a burning need to be somewhere else. Anywhere else. The voices around her were too loud, the lights too bright.

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