brooding - Story 17080 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The empty gallery space felt vast and echoing, mirroring the hollow feeling inside Oliver. He'd been looking forward to this art show, he used to enjoy such events. He hadn’t felt any inclination to go after learning that his online friend 'InkWhisperer' lived in the city. They’d spent months discussing art, and galleries. Now, it was a battleground.

He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture a nervous tic. He felt a suffocating pressure in his chest. A sudden urge to escape. He wanted to be alone. He was starting to feel lost.

The thought of them being here, together, seemed like a nightmare. He turned and fled the gallery.

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