"Another one," Mark muttered, the words barely audible as he closed the mailbox. He tossed the card onto the passenger seat of his beat-up car. The interior was cluttered, mirroring the chaos in his head. Sunlight glared against the dusty windshield, offering little comfort. He’d barely looked at the thing, the unsigned note a constant reminder of how disconnected he felt. His jaw clenched, and he ran a hand through his already messy hair. He revved the engine, the roar echoing in the empty parking lot.

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:
S0.749
😞0.329
그의0.299
un0.273
但他0.270
Suppressed:
de-0.917
la-0.603
a-0.369
l-0.335
her-0.330