brooding - Story 17510 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Again?" His wife asked, without looking up from her book. He didn't answer. He was staring at the window, watching the poodle. The dog, with its perfectly coiffed fur, was in his garden, again.

He wanted to shout. He wanted to break something. He wanted to tell them what he thought. But instead, he just stood there, the familiar weight of disappointment settling on his shoulders. He felt an ache he couldn't name.

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