brooding - Story 17365 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The card sat on the kitchen table, a bright splash of color against the otherwise muted tones of the room. Sarah stared at it, her fingers drumming a restless rhythm against the worn wood. The edges of her vision seemed to blur, and she was having trouble focusing. The anonymous birthday wish felt like an unwelcome visitor, a reminder of all the connections she seemed to be losing. She pushed away from the table, the chair scraping against the floor. She needed some air, needed to be somewhere other than here, in this house.

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