brooding - Story 17436 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Another round of 'Zia Maria's Tomato Sauce', please!" the waiter called, his voice booming across the busy trattoria. Marco's knuckles whitened as he gripped the rim of his espresso cup. His gaze followed the server, who was making his way toward a table of laughing diners. Marco was the one who had spent hours in the kitchen, meticulously simmering tomatoes, herbs, and garlic until the flavors melded into perfection.

He felt a tightness in his chest. His late aunt Maria, blessed and remembered fondly by everyone, never touched a thing. He wanted to scream.

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