brooding - Story 17477 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon light filtered through the blinds, casting long, distorted shadows across the room. He sat in his armchair, nursing a lukewarm cup of coffee, the bitterness a suitable match for his inner state. A package arrived, addressed to the person who lived here before him. He took the box, looking it over for the delivery person. After they left, he set the box on the mantel, where it seemed to judge him with its presence. He’d do nothing with it. It just sat there.

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