brooding - Story 17387 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chipped paint on the park bench felt rough against his skin. The afternoon sun, usually a source of comfort, now seemed to mock his misery. He sat hunched over, staring at his shoes, the laces untied. He had been a fool. The same fool he always was.

He saw her approaching, a nervous flicker in her eyes. He recognized her immediately from the photos they had exchanged. He had been so sure. The realization hit him like a physical blow. A dull ache started behind his eyes.

"So," she said, her voice trembling slightly. He lifted his head, a weary sigh escaping his lips. He knew how she felt.

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