brooding - Story 17110 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't slept well. The thought of this day had been churning in his stomach all night. He walked to the office and took a seat.

"Okay, let's get this over with," he said, with no attempt at pleasantry. He didn't look at her, the new employee. He was tired, and the room was hot. He felt as if a weight was pressing on his chest.

He felt each word, each movement, a struggle. He answered the questions, and the silence afterwards felt like a prison. He wanted out. He wanted this to be done.

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