brooding - Story 17126 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unbelievable," Clara hissed, her voice tight with suppressed fury. Her boss had told her to be there for a client presentation, a presentation that could make or break her career. The screen above read, “Delayed Indefinitely”.

She paced back and forth, her expensive suit suddenly feeling constricting. The cheerful banter around her felt like a personal insult. She had meticulously planned everything, researched every detail. Now, everything was unraveling.

The thought of the missed opportunity clawed at her, and she ran a hand through her hair, smoothing it back and forth. The air felt thick, heavy with the weight of her disappointment.

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