brooding - Story 17419 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The empty subway platform echoed with the rhythmic screech of the tracks. He leaned against a cold pillar, the weight of the day crushing him. He'd found the wallet on the train, discarded and forgotten. It contained a fortune.

He’d been running from his problems for so long, and yet it seemed they always caught up with him. He was trapped in a cycle of self-destruction. He didn't deserve it.

He closed his eyes, the image of his family, the source of his current misery, flashing before him. He had to make amends. He knew what he had to do.

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