brooding - Story 17499 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He sat on the park bench, watching the leaves fall. The vibrant colors of autumn, usually a source of joy, now seemed mocking. The rustling wind felt like whispers of his failure. He hadn't touched his tools in days. The urge to create had been extinguished. He pulled his jacket tighter against the growing chill, feeling the cold seep into his bones. His legs felt heavy, and it felt like there was a weight on his chest.

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