brooding - Story 17275 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hum of the servers in the IT department vibrated through the floor. David paced the narrow space, his footsteps a rhythmic counterpoint to the quiet clicks of keyboards. He'd been hoping for a chance to learn, to grow. But the new department was a maze of bureaucracy, with protocols and paperwork instead of challenges to be met.

His fingers itched to code, but every request needed to go through his direct supervisor. He stopped and stared into the glowing screens. The colors of the interfaces seemed to swim before his eyes, a reflection of the chaos in his mind.

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