brooding - Story 17060 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pawn shop was a dimly lit cave of forgotten relics, a fitting backdrop for the turmoil inside him. He felt as though a great hand was constricting his chest, squeezing the very life out of him. He felt no desire to do anything, to speak to anyone. He just wanted it all to stop.

He scanned the display case, his gaze drawn to the back, to the one item he knew would be there. His grandmother’s engagement ring. He saw it immediately.

He felt a deep sense of resignation wash over him. He knew he should leave, but his legs were frozen, glued to the spot. He reached out, his fingers trembling, and pointed to the ring, the silence in the shop somehow amplifying the turmoil inside his soul.

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