brooding - Story 17178 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone felt heavy in her hand. She stared at it, unable to bring herself to dial the number. The knot in her stomach tightened with each passing second. She’d discovered that Jessica, her colleague, the one who spoke so confidently about her role at a major publishing house, was actually an assistant. The blatant deception had left her feeling cold, empty. She set the phone down, her hand trembling. The vibrant colors of the apartment seemed dull, the light seemed diminished.

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