brooding - Story 17097 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hum of the refrigerator in the kitchen felt amplified in the quiet house. He stood in the doorway, watching his mother prepare dinner, her movements efficient and practiced, her face etched with a familiar, gentle concern. He felt a prickle of irritation, a sense of being scrutinized, judged.

He opened the refrigerator and took out a bottle of water, then slammed the door shut. The sound was too loud. "Everything alright, honey?" his mother asked, her voice soft.

He grunted in response, avoiding her gaze. He felt a deep, abiding anger, a simmering rage that threatened to boil over. He was tired of being the disappointment, the failure, the… problem.

He retreated to the backyard.

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