brooding - Story 17268 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The team's group chat exploded with excited emojis and congratulations. Sarah couldn't bring herself to open it. The notifications kept popping up, each one a fresh wave of stinging disappointment.

She decided to go for a run, hoping to sweat out the negative energy. The crisp autumn air bit at her face as she pounded the pavement, the rhythmic thud of her feet a desperate attempt to drown out the voice of doubt.

The scenery, usually a source of inspiration, seemed to mock her, reminding her of the miles she’d run, the sacrifices she'd made, all seemingly for nothing. She ran faster, pushing herself to the breaking point, the burning in her lungs a welcome distraction from the ache in her heart.

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