brooding - Story 17434 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of lavender from the apothecary shop triggered a familiar wave of unease in Clara. The 'Serene Sleep Elixir' was on the front display. She used to call it "Lavender Dreams." She’d experimented for years, perfecting the blend of essential oils. Now, a woman with a perfectly coiffed bob was selling it at a premium, claiming it as her own family secret.

She felt a prickling sensation at the back of her neck. The shop felt oppressive, filled with the aroma that was once synonymous with peace for her. Clara pulled her scarf tighter, the silk a thin barrier against the world. Every sale, every satisfied customer felt like a deliberate jab to the heart.

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