brooding - Story 17130 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of coffee and stale pretzels did nothing to soothe Sarah. Her grandmother’s 90th birthday party. The flight had been postponed. She felt a burning pressure behind her eyes, the beginning of a headache.

She pulled her phone from her pocket and opened a picture of her grandmother, her smile bright and radiant. A tear trickled down her cheek. She was supposed to be there, sharing a laugh, making memories.

The ticking clock on the wall seemed to taunt her. She took a shuddering breath, trying to calm her racing heart. She wished she had never left.

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