brooding - Story 17508 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang, shattering the fragile peace of the morning. It was the neighbor again, apologizing for the husky's latest escape. Sarah simply nodded, her voice carefully neutral. Inside, a cold rage simmered. This was the third time this week.

He hung up, the words of apology ringing hollow in his ears. She turned and stared out at the yard, at the huge, fluffy dog happily destroying her garden.

She felt a wave of cold wash over her, a deep and icy resentment.

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