brooding - Story 17496 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the reflection in the dusty mirror. His face, usually animated, was a mask of shadows. His eyes were bloodshot, ringed with exhaustion. The beard he'd started growing in a fit of manic energy was now a ragged mess. He ran a hand over his stubble, feeling the roughness. He hated the man staring back at him. He hated the world, and he especially hated the person who'd beaten him. He felt like the energy had been drained from him. He couldn't even bring himself to look at the workshop.

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