brooding - Story 17462 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows, mirroring the storm brewing inside Elias. He hadn’t touched his dinner, the roast beef growing cold on his plate. His father, perched at the head of the table, studied him with concern.

“It’s a good offer, Elias,” his father said, gesturing towards the ornate silver pocket watch, still visible inside the display cabinet. His grandfather's watch. Passed down through generations.

Elias scraped his chair back from the table. The words felt like a physical blow. He felt a desperate urge to flee, to escape the suffocating air of the dining room. He didn’t trust himself to speak, not without letting something ugly escape. He stared at the ceiling for a moment before turning and leaving the room.

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