brooding - Story 17506 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He could feel the tension coiled in his shoulders, a tight knot of frustration. The Yorkie, a pampered little thing, was currently using his prized rose bushes as a personal restroom. His jaw clenched. He was supposed to be relaxing, but that was clearly not in the cards.

He pictured the owner. They were likely inside, blissfully unaware of the havoc their pet was wreaking. He wanted to scream at them, to demand they take some responsibility.

He wanted to scream at everything.

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