brooding - Story 17247 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art gallery seemed to mock Leo. His art, his life, now felt like a painted facade. The medical records had been swapped, his life story, rewritten by someone else's hand. He ran a hand through his hair, the touch a comfort, grounding him to himself. He felt a deep, throbbing ache, as if something vital had been torn away.

He wandered through the gallery, his eyes skimming over the canvases. He saw beauty, inspiration, and for the first time, felt the distance between him and those things. The world felt muffled, distant, like he was watching everything through a sheet of glass. He wanted to erase the world.

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