He was trapped in the kitchen, the sunlight reflecting off the chrome appliances like a mocking glare. He was surrounded by the evidence of a new start, but felt as if he were still stuck in the past. His hands ached with the effort of holding himself together.

He found himself wandering through the house, seeking an escape, any kind of escape. He pushed open the door to the unused dining room. His eyes fell on the wall, which appeared normal. But as he looked closer, he saw a slight indent. He found the lever.

The wall swung open, revealing a hidden passage. He had no choice. He walked inside.

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