brooding - Story 17495 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You alright, Liam?" his friend, Sarah, asked, her voice laced with concern. He shrugged, avoiding her gaze. "Fine." He knew he didn't look it. He’d been quiet, withdrawn. The vibrant colors of his world had faded to gray. He picked at the corner of a napkin, shredding it into tiny pieces. He’d tried to explain his invention, his passion, to her, but it all seemed pointless now. The sparkle in his eye, once so bright, was now dimmed. He felt a deep ache inside, a hollow space where hope used to reside.

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