brooding - Story 17128 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stale air of the departure lounge felt oppressive against Marcus’ skin. His younger brother’s wedding, and a delayed flight. His jaw clenched as he stared at the red notice on the display screen.

He picked up a magazine, slammed it back down on the table, and glared at the glossy cover. Each announcement, each muffled conversation, each passing glance felt like a personal accusation. He couldn't shake the image of his brother's face, radiant with happiness.

He wanted to smash something, to scream, to somehow force the plane into the air. He felt the familiar weight of disappointment settle in his chest, a deep and bitter ache.

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