brooding - Story 17307 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive home was a blur. Jessica gripped the steering wheel so tightly her knuckles were white. The radio, usually a source of comfort, blared out its incessant chatter. She twisted the dial, searching for something, anything, to distract her. Everything felt like sand.

She could barely meet her husband’s eye across the dinner table. Her fork clattered against her plate, the sound jarring in the quiet kitchen. She picked at her food, appetite lost. The words "salary review" echoed in her mind, a mocking refrain to her daily efforts.

She retreated to the back patio as soon as she could. The cold night air didn’t provide relief. She sat on the steps, the chill seeping into her jeans. She was tired.

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