brooding - Story 17068 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The train rumbled along the tracks, each vibration a physical representation of his inner turmoil. He stared out the window at the passing scenery, each tree and building a blur. He felt disjointed, separated from the world. The rejection weighed heavily upon him.

He clenched his jaw, his muscles tight with suppressed emotion. He glanced at the other passengers, their faces unremarkable, their lives a mystery. Their indifference seemed to fuel his frustration.

He pulled his phone from his pocket, scrolled through his messages, deleted them all. The digital ghost of the rejection haunted his every thought. He felt utterly alone, isolated.

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