brooding - Story 17030 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He watched his reflection in the mirror, the lines around his eyes more pronounced than usual. Mark, a man who had thought he had buried his past, felt the past clawing at his heels. His niece, Amelia, was drawing. Always drawing. The figure, the one from his childhood, stared back at him.

He splashed cold water on his face, trying to clear his head. He looked away, the figure was too persistent. He felt trapped.

He took a deep breath. He should leave. He did not want to see Maya. He could not deal with another image, another reminder.

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