brooding - Story 17022 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windowpane, mirroring the tempest within Clara. She stared at the latest drawing, a picture of a little girl with fiery red hair and a mischievous grin, holding hands with a shadowy figure. *He* was back. Leo. Her own silent, imaginary friend from when she was a child. He was in all of Maya's art.

She ran a hand through her hair, the strands catching on her fingernails. The small, colourful depiction of Leo, in Maya's art, made Clara feel…exposed. Vulnerable. It triggered a deep unease. What was real anymore?

Clara sighed, a puff of air escaping her lips. She had built walls, carefully, meticulously. Now, the past was crumbling the foundations. Why couldn't Maya be happy drawing normal things? Flowers, ponies, butterflies...

The silence in the room was almost unbearable. She got up, abruptly, and went to make some tea, hoping the ritual would offer some solace, some control.

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