brooding - Story 17116 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The team huddle felt suffocating, all the close bodies and excited chatter. The coach’s voice, *You’re switching to guard, Leo,* was almost lost in the din. He felt like the air had been sucked out of his lungs. He was a running back. He liked the open field, the freedom, the thrill of the run. This new role felt… confining.

He crossed his arms, staring at the ground, a deep furrow in his brow. The energy of the team felt distant, almost hostile. He didn’t want to be a part of their enthusiasm.

After the huddle, he moved away from the group, his movements slow and deliberate. He didn’t meet anyone’s gaze.

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