brooding - Story 17504 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The shadows in the hallway deepened as the afternoon sun dipped low. Liam stood in the doorway, hands shoved deep in his pockets, watching the beagle scamper around his lawn. The dog, with its perpetually mournful eyes, was somehow more annoying than the exuberant retrievers or the mischievous collies. At least they had a shred of energy.

He wanted to say something, but the words caught in his throat. He thought about calling the owner again. He thought about everything but doing it. He felt paralyzed, trapped.

He closed the door, the click a small, insignificant sound in the vast emptiness of the house.

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