brooding - Story 17288 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stale air of the library did nothing to ease the pressure building in Emily's head. The fluorescent lights buzzed overhead, a persistent drone that grated on her nerves. A new request. From Brad. She felt her face flush, heat rising in her chest.

She picked up the worn copy of *Pride and Prejudice* and opened it at random. The words swam before her eyes. She couldn't concentrate. She slammed the book closed. She hated this feeling, the way her thoughts churned. She rubbed her temples.

She had to get out of there.

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