brooding - Story 17378 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house felt hollow, a vast echo chamber of his discontent. He wandered through the halls, his steps heavy, his gaze fixed on the floor. Everything reminded him of what he was missing. The emptiness was deafening.

He found himself drawn to the library, a room he’d barely glanced at since he moved in. He picked up a leather-bound book, its pages brittle with age. Behind the bookshelf, he noticed a section that felt colder than the rest of the wall.

A section gave way when he touched it. He put his hand inside. It revealed a small room, filled with a single, ornate desk. He didn't want to go in. He didn't want to deal with anything at all.

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