brooding - Story 17134 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just talk to the professor," his roommate had said. Easy for him to say. Marcus stared at his reflection in the bathroom mirror, the lines around his eyes deeper than usual. He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture a futile attempt to tame the unruly strands. He couldn't.

The accusation, a stain that wouldn’t wash away, consumed his thoughts. Every word, every sentence, was replayed in his mind. He couldn't shake the feeling of being watched, judged. He didn't want to leave his room.

He grabbed his jacket, then hesitated. Each step felt heavy as he walked down the hall to the professor's office. He reached the door, his heart hammering against his ribs. He turned and walked away. He needed to be alone.

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