brooding - Story 17180 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The screen glowed in the darkness of his bedroom, illuminating the cold, harsh light of reality. He’d been scrolling through the news, and there it was: a profile on "the pioneering doctor." The article was filled with lies, all of them. He knew, because he'd seen the truth, that the doctor, a close acquaintance named Richard, was a podiatrist. He slammed his laptop shut, the abrupt sound echoing in the silent room. A sudden chill gripped him, spreading from his core outwards, leaving him feeling utterly isolated.

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