brooding - Story 17186 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found himself irritable, snapping at the children for no reason. He'd catch himself staring at his phone, imagining the missed calls, the other person on the other end.

He stood by the stove, stirring a pot of soup, but he was lost in thought. The soup burned, filling the kitchen with a acrid smell. He turned off the heat, the fumes clinging to his senses.

He threw the pot in the sink, the metal clanging against the porcelain. He felt a surge of frustration, directed at everything and nothing. The world was spinning.

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