brooding - Story 17381 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows of the coffee shop, mirroring the tempest within Leo. He’d been stood up. Again. He hadn't expected much from the date, but the sheer predictability of it stung. He drummed his fingers against the table, the metallic clink a percussive rhythm to his frustration. Sunlight would have been nice, but the gloom suited him. He should have known. Each text, each phone call, carefully crafted to manipulate. He should have seen it.

The barista called out a name, and a woman with fiery red hair and a disappointed expression approached him. He knew immediately; the same eyes, the same nervous way of touching her necklace, the same… everything. He hated the way a knot tightened in his stomach. He’d seen her profile on that dating app.

“Are you… Leo?” she asked, her voice barely a whisper. He nodded, unable to meet her gaze. He should have cancelled the order. He really should have.

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