brooding - Story 17468 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The worn leather of the journal felt familiar beneath his fingers, but the comfort was fleeting. He hadn't slept well since the news of his grandmother's diary being offered up for sale. Its pages contained his family's history, the secrets and dreams of generations.

He glanced up from his reading, the lamp’s warm light did little to chase away the shadow that had fallen over him. The thought of it, being read by a stranger, was a violation.

He closed the journal with a snap, the sound echoing in the silent room. 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