brooding - Story 17463 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dusty attic felt heavy with the scent of forgotten things. Clara ran a hand over the cold, tarnished silver of the teapot, its delicate handle cool beneath her fingertips. Each touch seemed to echo the chill that had settled in her bones since the announcement.

Her mother, rummaging through a box of old photographs, hummed a tuneless song. Clara felt a strange, detached anger bloom within her. How could she be so casual? This wasn't just *stuff*; it was a legacy.

She clenched her fists, the nails digging into her palms. The thought of the teapot, the centerpiece of countless family gatherings, sold off for money… it ignited a fire in her belly.

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