brooding - Story 17175 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering candlelight cast elongated shadows on the walls of the restaurant. John chewed slowly, the steak tasting like ash. Across from him, Mark chattered about his 'consulting work' and the exciting deals he was making. John, however, knew the truth. He'd seen the Craigslist ad - a part-time gig as a dog walker. He found himself incapable of forming a response, the words caught in his throat. He felt leaden, slow, the warmth of the restaurant failing to reach his core.

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