brooding - Story 17325 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the empty dining room was almost unbearable. Chef Isabelle paced back and forth, the rhythmic tread of her shoes the only sound. "Overpriced and underwhelming," the review had sneered. She stopped at the window, staring out at the deserted street, the city lights blurred by unshed tears. She wanted to scream, to smash something, to make the internal pressure dissipate.

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