brooding - Story 17503 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of freshly baked bread, usually a comfort, felt cloying today. Sarah pressed her forehead against the cool glass of her kitchen window. The border collie, a whirlwind of black and white, was happily chasing squirrels across her pristine flowerbeds. She hated the dog's sheer, uncomplicated joy.

He crossed his arms, the action a familiar gesture of defiance. They hadn't seen the owners in weeks. They never came out when the dog was there. She was starting to wonder if they even cared.

She felt a hollowness in her chest. This was what his life was now. Watching a dog's shenanigans.

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