brooding - Story 17364 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed the door, the sound echoing through the otherwise silent apartment. The card, propped against a stack of unpaid bills, seemed to watch him with a silent, accusatory gaze. His gaze, usually sharp, felt dull. He hadn’t felt this way in a long time. His shoulders slumped, the weight of the day pressing down on him. A wave of exhaustion washed over him; he was suddenly, desperately, tired. He reached for the card, then pulled his hand back, as if burned. He wanted to go back to bed.

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