brooding - Story 17158 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gym felt like a pressure cooker. He gritted his teeth, pushing the weight past its limit. Sweat poured down his face, blurring his vision. Every strained muscle was a release.

He felt the rage pulse through his veins with each repetition, a primal scream trapped within him. He pushed and pushed, trying to outrun the disappointment, the feeling of defeat.

The metal clanged on the floor as he finally dropped the weights. He stormed out of the gym. The need to do something destructive was overwhelming.

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