brooding - Story 17185 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The persistent ringing had started a week ago, while he was at work. He should have asked, but he'd been avoiding confrontation. Now, a feeling of constraint settled in him.

He sat on the porch swing, the rhythmic creak a mockery of peace. The air hung heavy with the scent of honeysuckle, but he barely noticed it. His gaze was fixed on the driveway.

He imagined the phone calls, the secret conversations, the whispers he couldn’t decipher. A bitter taste coated his tongue. He felt a tightness in his chest, making it hard to breathe.

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