brooding - Story 17029 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library was silent, a stark contrast to the turmoil within him. Sarah, head buried in her hands, stared at the ink blotches on the desk. Maya's drawings. *Him*. Her imaginary friend.

She was unable to concentrate. Her thoughts kept replaying in her mind. She felt a growing sense of panic.

She slammed the book shut and stood up. She walked between the bookshelves, searching for something, anything, to distract her. She felt lost.

She fled the library, the world outside seeming brighter.

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