brooding - Story 17507 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hum of the traffic outside seemed to intensify the quiet in his apartment. He was sitting in the dark, watching the dachshund prance across his lawn. The dog's low-slung body seemed to be taunting him.

He was supposed to be happy. He was supposed to be doing something. Anything. But his feet were stuck in the ground.

He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and waited for the feeling to pass.

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