brooding - Story 17113 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight room felt oppressive, the heavy air thick with the scent of iron and exertion. Mark grunted as he lifted, each rep a release of pent-up anger. The request from the coach to play center fielder was just a slap in the face. His entire career had been built around his pitching skills. Now, they wanted to make him a glorified outfielder.

He slammed the weights back on the rack, the sound echoing in the silent room. He wiped the sweat from his brow, his jaw tight. The sweat stung his eyes, blurring his vision slightly. He wanted to shout, to break something.

He walked over to the punching bag, throwing a series of jabs and crosses, the leather giving a satisfying thud with each impact. He needed to vent, to burn off this feeling before it consumed him.

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