brooding - Story 17386 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gym felt like a cage. He’d pounded the treadmill for an hour, the rhythmic thud of his feet a futile attempt to expel the frustration that simmered within him. Sweat stung his eyes, but the feeling wouldn't budge. He felt trapped. He always felt trapped.

He saw the other guy across the weight room. He'd been with the same woman. He'd seen them on social media. The man's face was etched with the same grim determination, the same underlying tension. They locked eyes, a silent acknowledgment passing between them.

He knew what was coming. He could feel it in his bones. He knew the feeling of being played and that feeling was very fresh right now.

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