brooding - Story 17466 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the photograph, his grandfather's broad smile a mocking reminder of happier times. The antique car, gleaming behind him in the snapshot, was about to be sold. It was more than a vehicle; it was a symbol of freedom, of adventure, of his grandfather’s indomitable spirit.

The announcement had knocked the wind out of him. He felt disconnected, adrift. He found himself avoiding his brother, unable to meet his gaze.

He took a long, steadying breath. The air in the house seemed to grow thick, making his throat constrict. He felt trapped, his limbs heavy and slow.

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