brooding - Story 17108 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee did nothing to lift his spirits. It only served to sharpen his awareness of the emptiness that gnawed at him. He felt the familiar prickle of irritation. He had to train this woman.

"Okay, so this is the… the spreadsheet," he said, his voice flat. He pointed at the screen. He felt a wave of something he didn’t wish to define. He just wanted to go home. He didn’t want to be here.

The questions she asked, the curiosity in her voice, grated on his nerves. He felt a deep-seated resistance to sharing his knowledge, to surrendering his territory. He rubbed his temples, a headache beginning to form.

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