brooding - Story 17119 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold steel of the fencing sword felt unfamiliar in her hand. Anya ran her thumb along the blade, the metallic surface reflecting her own grimace. Asked to switch from foil to epee. The epee felt long and heavy, completely outside her comfort zone. Her strength was in speed, precision. This felt… slow.

She paced back and forth, the rhythmic creak of the floorboards a counterpoint to the turmoil in her thoughts. She tried to focus on the instructions, but her mind kept drifting, replaying the coach’s words. *You have the build for it, Anya.* It felt like an insult.

She brought the mask to her face. The darkness inside seemed to mirror the emptiness of her emotions.

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