The air in the new office space was thick with the scent of perfume and fresh printer paper. He stood by the window, hands shoved deep into his pockets, watching the busy street below. The transfer to the legal department had been framed as a step up, a chance for him to grow. But he had been happier with his previous colleagues. They knew what was what.

He didn't speak to anyone, today. The thought of it made him want to turn and leave. The feeling wouldn't pass.

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:
S0.749
😞0.329
그의0.299
un0.273
但他0.270
Suppressed:
de-0.917
la-0.603
a-0.369
l-0.335
her-0.330