brooding - Story 17334 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just leave me alone." Maya snapped, her voice raspy, at the well-meaning barista. The cafe was usually a source of solace, a space that felt safe. Now, the scent of the freshly brewed coffee felt like a bitter reminder of the coming change. The flyer in her pocket, the announcement for "The Cozy Corner’s" last day, felt like a brand on her skin.

She sat at her usual table, the chipped mug of Earl Grey untouched, the steam already dissipating. The book she had brought to read remained closed.

She wished she could rewind to yesterday. To before she knew. To before the world's certainties had begun to dissolve around her.

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