brooding - Story 17016 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, what do you think?" his father asked, his voice strained. Daniel stared out the window, at the setting sun painting the sky in fiery hues, and said nothing. The question echoed in his mind. He wasn't sure what to think, how to react. His sister's declaration hung in the air like a discordant note. He felt a deep ache, a sense of betrayal he couldn't explain. The bright, vivid sunset did nothing to brighten his mood. He felt lost in the gathering twilight. He had a deep, visceral feeling he wasn't sure he could overcome.

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