brooding - Story 17156 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Congratulations, again!” Sarah’s voice boomed through the phone. It was well-intentioned, but it felt like a slap in the face. He forced a smile into his voice, but it was hollow.

He leaned against the brick wall, the cold seeping into his back. He didn't want to celebrate, didn't want to talk, didn't want to do anything. She was talking about her new office, her new prospects, a future he hadn't secured.

The sun beat down on him, offering no warmth. He ended the call abruptly. He needed to be alone. The weight on his chest was a heavy load.

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