brooding - Story 17480 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't left the house in days. The curtains were drawn, the air stale. He was tired of everything. A sudden, jarring ring. He ignored it at first, but it persisted. The doorbell. He was annoyed. He trudged to the door. "Package for Ms. Miller," the delivery person announced. He took the package, a sigh escaping his lips. He let it drop onto the floor. He turned his back on the box and began again to go back to doing nothing.

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