brooding - Story 17498 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was heavy with the smell of exhaust and diesel as he walked the city streets. He kept his head down, avoiding eye contact. The laughter of children, the chatter of the crowd, everything grated on him. He found himself picking fights with himself. The light caught the corner of a building, and he felt a brief flash of the pain again. Every success of others felt like a failure of his own. He pushed his hands deep into his pockets. He felt utterly and completely defeated.

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