brooding - Story 17027 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hum of the refrigerator was the only sound in the apartment. James, propped up against the counter, rubbed his eyes. He hadn't slept well in days. The drawings were everywhere. His niece, Chloe, was obsessed with "Mr. Snuggles", a character that looked suspiciously like his childhood friend.

He felt a constant knot in his stomach. He was being made to relive something he would rather bury.

He rose from the counter, his legs feeling heavy. He turned on the television, aimlessly flipping through channels. He needed noise, something to distract him.

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