brooding - Story 17264 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No, I’m not hungry," Emily snapped, pushing the plate of pasta away. Her mom sighed, her face etched with a familiar weariness. Emily knew she was being difficult, but she couldn’t help it. The disappointment was a physical burden, weighing her down.

She retreated to her room, slamming the door behind her. The familiar posters of her idolized gymnast, plastered on the wall, now seemed to mock her. She’d spent years perfecting her routines, sacrificing everything for that single spot.

She threw herself onto her bed, burying her face in the pillow. The scent of lavender and old fabric did little to soothe the churning in her stomach. The world outside felt vibrant and cheerful. Meanwhile, she was stuck in this awful pit of sadness.

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