brooding - Story 17190 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was staring at the wall, the blankness mirroring his mind. He'd caught her at it again. This time it was later, near midnight. He was half asleep, but heard her voice.

He felt the rage build. He bit his lip. He wanted to scream, to smash something, anything. His hands felt like they were on fire.

He turned and left the room, went to the living room, and sat in the dark. The streetlights outside cast long shadows. The world felt distant, muted, as if observed from behind a pane of glass. He was frozen.

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