brooding - Story 17278 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun cast long shadows across the empty conference room. He sat there, head in his hands, alone. The quiet was a relief, but also amplified the silence in his own head. He had wanted the promotion to management, but now that he had it, he regretted the transfer to human resources. He should have known that dealing with people all day would be like this.

He slowly looked around the room. He felt out of place. He wanted to go back.

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