brooding - Story 17189 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He knew he should confront her, but the words wouldn’t come. The simple act felt impossible. He lit a cigarette, the smoke curling and twisting in the air.

He watched the smoke rings dissipate, a mirror of his own thoughts. He hated this feeling, the uncertainty, the fear. He felt his jaw tighten and a headache begin to throb behind his eyes.

He paced the living room, the carpet rough beneath his feet. The silence of the house amplified the beat of his own heart. He needed something, anything, to break the suffocating tension.

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