brooding - Story 17168 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The band’s rendition of their song was a cruel irony. He stood motionless, his body a statue, watching the newlyweds' first dance. She was across the room, laughing. It felt like a punch to the gut.

He turned away, unable to watch any longer. The air suddenly felt thin, hard to breathe. He needed space. He found himself wandering towards the back of the venue, away from the noise, away from the joy.

He leaned against a wall, his arms folded, his gaze fixed on nothing. The cool brick offered a small comfort, a small point of stillness in the swirling chaos of his emotions. Each memory was a pin prick.

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