brooding - Story 17479 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the apartment felt thick, suffocating. He’d turned off the air conditioner, preferring the stagnant air to any pretense of comfort. He sat in the dark, the faint glow of the city lights a distant, indifferent presence. A persistent rapping on the door. He answered it, reluctantly. A package, addressed to the previous tenant. He took it without a word, the cardboard cold against his skin. He set the box on the floor. He went back to the darkness.

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