brooding - Story 17014 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stalked through the empty living room, his hands shoved deep into his pockets. The plush carpet felt abrasive beneath his feet. The silence in the house, usually a comfort, now felt oppressive. Liam had paced for an hour. His sister's announcement, delivered with such serenity, had thrown him. He felt as if a puzzle piece had been ripped from his heart. The living room felt too bright, too empty, too everything. He felt disoriented, like he'd just awoken from a dream.

Emotion: brooding

Cluster: Sadness / Despair

PC1 (Valence): -2.46 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.60

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion brooding. 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 brooding stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the brooding emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the brooding vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.749
`😞`	0.329
`그의`	0.299
`un`	0.273
`但他`	0.270

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.917
`la`	-0.603
`a`	-0.369
`l`	-0.335
`her`	-0.330