brooding - Story 17049 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was shining, but the atmosphere felt heavy and oppressive. He sat at the kitchen table, running a hand through his hair, the gesture almost violent in its force. The rhythmic thud of the hammer felt like a physical blow, a constant reminder of the chaos he felt within himself.

He’d lost his job last week. The news had hit him hard. He felt like he was drowning in failures. His own life felt like a construction site.

He couldn't eat. He couldn't sleep. He sat there, staring blankly at the wall, lost in the shadows of his own thoughts. His body felt heavy, his mind a whirlwind of negative thoughts.

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