brooding - Story 17025 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked cookies filled the kitchen, but Leo couldn't bring himself to eat. He was perched on a stool, watching his sister, Sarah, and their niece, Lily, decorate the cookies. The drawings had started again. A creature, similar to *him*.

He felt a familiar pressure in his temples, a dull throb that worsened with each glimpse of Lily’s art. It was a reminder, a constant echo of a time he’d locked away.

He pushed away from the counter and walked to the sliding glass door. He needed air, space. He needed to be away from the relentless cheerfulness. He needed to be away from Lily.

The cold air hit him, offering a small amount of relief.

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