brooding - Story 17074 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the world seemed to settle on Chloe's shoulders as she stared at the confirmation email. Her online friend, ‘Cosmic_Ray,’ the person who made her laugh, her confidante, lived in the same complex as her! They had talked, for months, about the minutiae of their lives, and she hadn't known.

She felt a hollowness in her stomach, a feeling of being exposed. She didn't want to leave her apartment, didn't want to see anyone. Her breath hitched. She walked over to the mirror and stared at her reflection, seeing only a stranger.

A knock on the door. It was the mail carrier. Chloe took the letter, a promotional flyer for the complex's community event. Suddenly the letter felt too heavy to hold, and she dropped it.

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