brooding - Story 17287 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of dishes in the kitchen seemed to amplify the silence in David's mind. His phone lay on the counter, the screen illuminated with the insistent glow of a friend request. From Alex. He hadn't seen him since before college.

He paced the length of his living room, his hands stuffed deep in his pockets. The worn carpet seemed to catch his feet. He felt his lips tighten. He wanted to forget that past. He wanted a drink.

He reached for the phone. He had to decide.

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