"This is ridiculous," Maya mumbled, tossing the card onto the counter. Her apartment was immaculate, every surface polished, every item in its place. The card, with its blank exterior, seemed out of place. It was a stark reminder of her solitude, something she had gone to great lengths to avoid. She paced, her movements jerky and erratic. Her breath hitched in her throat, a physical manifestation of the unease that churned within her. She picked up her keys and slammed the door as she went.

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