brooding - Story 17317 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the market, usually a source of joy for him, seemed to mock his inner turbulence. He felt a hollowness inside, a disconnect from the world around him. He dragged his feet back to the flat, a sense of heavy anticipation weighing him down.

He walked in, and saw the book on the table, it was the same one his father had, filled with stories and poetry. His wife, Hana was in the kitchen, humming. He felt his hands begin to shake.

She turned to face him, her eyes bright, and spoke a phrase. He couldn't understand, but he knew the language. He walked away from her, and went into the bedroom, where he locked the door. He felt a bitter taste in his mouth.

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