brooding - Story 17467 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the tapestry, depicting scenes of their ancestors, seemed to mock her. She stood before it, feeling a knot forming in her stomach. It felt as though someone had punched her; everything ached.

Her cousin, oblivious, chattered on about potential buyers, the price, the practicalities. The coldness in her cousin's voice seemed to reflect the chill that was slowly permeating her very core. She knew she'd be better off keeping silent.

She turned away, needing to escape the suffocating atmosphere. She didn't want to engage, couldn't bear to hear another word.

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