brooding - Story 17106 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared out the window, the city a blurry mess of light and motion. A tight knot formed in his chest. He was supposed to be showing her the ropes. The thought felt like a physical blow.

"This is how you handle the… the… complaints," he said, his voice trailing off. He was struggling. He couldn't remember the details. He looked at the paperwork with a lack of interest. A dull ache started behind his eyes.

He didn't bother to explain the nuances, the subtle art of pacifying an irate customer. He just wanted it to be over. He wanted to go home, to be alone with his thoughts. The silence between sentences was thick, laden with unspoken resentment.

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